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Apple Fixes Critical Holes in Darwin Streaming Server
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-05-11
Apple has updated its open-source Darwin Streaming Server to fix two critical security holes that can allow a remote attacker to hijack the server.
Darwin is an open-source
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TSA Misplaces 100,000 Employee Records
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-05-07
A hard drive containing 100,000 employee records has been lost or stolen from the Transportation Security Administration, the agency announced on May 7.
The TSA discovered that the hard drive
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Exchange Patch Could Bring E-Mail Hell
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-05-04
Microsoft is issuing a critical security bulletin for Exchange on next week's Patch Tuesday that's likely to leave some employees squawking and without e-mail midweek.
"There hasn't been an
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Bank Docs Found in Trash Are Legit
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-05-04
JPMorgan Chase has confirmed that the papers pulled from its trash cans by Service Employees International Union representatives are legitimate bank documents.
The documents, taken from the
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MS DNS Patch on the Way
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-05-04
Microsoft will patch seven security flaws, including the critical DNS server flaw, outlined in its 935964 advisory, on Patch Tuesday—May 8.
The DNS patch is one of seven security bulletins to be
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Labor Union Posts Video of Bank Docs Pulled from Trash
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-05-03
After receiving copies of documents pulled from the trash earlier this week, JPMorganChase will be contacting customers whose identities may have been compromised.
The
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Maggoty Hamburgers, Spam Assassination and Mal/Iframe, Oh My
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-05-03
April saw the emergence of company character assassination spam, image spam variations and the dominance of Mal/Iframe—malware that crawls legitimate sites for holes
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MS Closes the Edge-Server-Client Security Loop
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-05-02
In a worldwide kickoff event that involved 50,000 people, Microsoft on May 2 launched the client piece of its aggressive client-server-edge enterprise security software push, which the
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Apple Fixes QuickTime Hole
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-05-01
Apple has stitched up the hole in QuickTime that allowed hackers at the CanSecWest security show to take over a MacBook Pro in a Pwn-2-Own contest on April 20.
The zero-day vulnerability was discovered
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E-Gold E-ndicted for Fronting Child Pornsters, Fraudsters
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-04-30
E-Gold, what F-Secure calls a "very prominent" digital currency for criminals, has been indicted for money laundering, conspiracy and operating an unlicensed money transmitting
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Google Stomps Out Malicious Sponsored Links
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-04-30
Google has shuttered AdWord accounts that have been serving up malware while masquerading as known and trusted sites, such as Better Business Bureau and cars.com.
One of the malicious
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NY Teen Hacks, Infects and Dissects AOL
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-04-27
A New York teenager with a grudge has admitted to hacking AOL, getting into its internal networks and databases, planting a Trojan, and spear phishing 60 accounts out of AOL employees and
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Microsoft to Fix Development with Lessons Learned from ANI
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-04-27
After all the work Microsoft did leveraging the Security Development Lifecycle, why didn't SDL catch the animated cursor vulnerability in Windows Vista?
According to
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Image Spam Uses Photo-Sharing Site to Sneak Under Radar
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-04-26
Secure Computing is reporting that it has detected a new form of image spam that has taken an evolutionary leap over past image spam, using the popular photo-sharing site
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Critical Photoshop Bug Out
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-04-26
A highly critical vulnerability that can allow attackers to hijack a user's system has been reported in Adobe Photoshop.
A Secunia advisory said the vulnerability is caused by an error in the handling
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