Archive for March, 2007
Fake IE7 downloads
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
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Bad guys are always looking for ways to get innocent people to download malware onto their PCs. Our friends at Sunbelt Software shows us one of their latest tricks - fake IE7 downloads :
There is spam out there that tries to get you to download IE 7. It’s fake, of course. When you click on the [...]
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More on the animated cursors vulnerability
Friday, March 30th, 2007
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Here's some more info on the animated cursors vulnerability. This information is from McAfee :
Preliminary tests demonstrate that Internet Explorer 6 and 7 running on a fully patched Windows XP SP2 are vulnerable to this attack. Windows XP SP0 and SP1 do not appear to be vulnerable, nor does Firefox 2.0. Exploitation happens completely silently.
The vulnerability [...]
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Apple “unmodding” modded Apple TV boxes
Friday, March 30th, 2007
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Is Apple "unmodding" modded Apple TV boxes? It seems like they might be :
Several of us over in the Awkward TV IRC(l0rdr0ck, myself, and others) have had our Mod’d Apple TV’s played with over night(SSH/VNC disabled), our guess is apple has started to fight back the mod’d Apple TV’s. This is a warning to all of [...]
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Microsoft Security Advisory (935423) - Vulnerability in Windows Animated Cursor Handling
Friday, March 30th, 2007
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Animated cursors could be harmful to your PC's health :
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of attacks exploiting a vulnerability in the way Microsoft Windows handles animated cursor (.ani) files. In order for this attack to be carried out, a user must either visit a Web site that contains a Web page that is used to [...]
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YouGetItBack.com
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
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Have you ever lost a cell phone, MP3 player or PDA? You need YouGetItBack.com .
It used to be that when you lost something valuable, it was gone for good.Those times have changed. Now if you lose it... 7 times out of 10 you get it back!
Yougetitback.com combines security labeling and modern communications technology with a no-nonsense, 24/7 [...]
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Recovering from identity theft
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
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Identity theft is touching more and more people. Your Credit Advisor has a 24-point recovery checklist for those affected by ID theft.
Take a deep breath and act rather than react.
Limit further disclosure of personal information.
Change all passwords that you use online as you walk through the next 21 steps.
Place a fraud alert on your credit [...]
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