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Beware the Windows Animated Cursor, Says MS

Microsoft released a security advisory regarding the vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Animated cursor, McAfee reported on Wednesday. McAfee had earlier noted a proof of...

Drive-by Exploit Plants Trojans onto Fully Patched Windows Systems Running IE

McAfee's Avert Labs have discovered a drive-by exploit on the Web that preys on fully patched Windows XP SP2 systems running IE 6 and...

Bulgarian Woman Arrested for eBay Fraud Scheme

The FBI has arrested a Bulgarian woman in connection with an international scheme that's responsible for defrauding eBay users of more than $350,000.The agency...

MDAC Exploit Code Recipe Published

Exploit code is out for a critical MDAC vulnerability that Microsoft reported in its MS07-009 bulletin, so if you haven't patched yet, better hop...

Reloaded Metasploit Point-and-Click Pen Tool Ready to Get Down to Hacking

The new version of HD Moore's point-and-click Metasploit Framework that was rewritten from scratch in the Ruby scripting language is ready to penetrate, pick...

Microsoft ‘Fesses Up to Pretexting Goofs by Xbox Agents

After having listened to audiotapes that execs found "painful," Microsoft has owned up to the fact that some of its Xbox Live support center...

Trojan Spreading Via Skype

A Trojan is using the free Skype VOIP service to spread to users' friends, family and colleagues, Websense Security Labs reported on March 22.The...

Say It Ain’t So, SAP

What I particularly like about Oracle's lawsuit against SAP, wherein Oracle charges its rival with "corporate theft on a grand scale," is that it...

Xbox Gamer: Microsoft Support Staff Giving Away Players’ Accounts

Kevin Finisterre, one of many Xbox gamers who claim that they've recently been shut out of their accounts after hijackers have taken them over,...

Red Hat Release Coincides with Host of Related Application, Kernel Fixes

It turns out that, after years of engineering work and collaboration efforts with strategic partners such as IBM, Red Hat's March 14 release of...