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Microsoft today issued a security advisory to acknowledge an
information disclosure hole in its Internet Explorer browser and warned
that an attacker could exploit the flaw to access files
with an already known filename and location.
The vulnerability was
first discussed at this week's Black Hat DC conference by Jorge Luis
Alvarez Medina, a security consultant with Core Security
Technologies. Microsoft says the risk is highest for IE users running
Windows XP or who have disabled the browser's Protected Mode feature.
Based
on a presentation Dmitry Bestuzhev gave at the Virus Analyst
Summit
in Moscow last week, Bob McMillan of PCWorld and
Devindra
Hardawar of VentureBeat have written articles based on
his
information about stolen Twitter accounts. Read on to see how
hackers
are using stolen accounts to make money.
With
the culmination of the Patriots Football season, 16 schools
will
receive new computers. To date, Kaspersky has donated 168
computers
to deserving New England schools. The computers will be
delivered to
the schools this week and in March a kicker's clinic will be
hosted
by kicker Stephen Gostkowski for the weekly winners of the
Touchdowns
for Technology program.
In
this video interview, Costin Raiu, chief security expert at
Kaspersky
Lab in Romania, discusses the state of the threat landscape
for the
year ahead, including botnets, malicious PDFs and targeted
attacks.
This
article poses the question about Norton being the best anti
virus
program, however, when explaining how Norton works, the author
suggests that Norton 2010 is modeled after Kaspersky. Read on
to find
out how Norton is modeled after Kaspersky.
Google
is starting a new program that will pay security researchers a
$500
bounty for every security bug they find in Chromium, the
open-source
codebase behind the Google Chrome browser, as well as for bugs
found
in Chrome itself.
