Thursday, October 9, 2008

'A battle for the future integrity of the internet is under way' - Public Servant Online

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I have talked about this in previous posts, but there are certainly varying opinions about the ethics of monitoring computer activity. I think everyone is in complete agreement that companies... Read More

In the wake of Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account being compromised by hackers last week, Yahoo's VP of Mail, John Kremer, wrote a brief article highlighting... Read More

Do you have antivirus software installed? Is it updated? How about antispyware protection? Do you have a personal firewall protecting your PC? Do you have some sort of antiphishing program... Read More

The Microsoft Windows Media Encoder wmex.dll ActiveX control is vulnerable to a buffer overflowthat could result in remote code execution. Read More

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Multiple vendor DNS protocol implementations could allow a remote attacker to poison the DNS cache.  Patches that resolve the vulnerability on the DNS may be rendered ineffective if the DNS is behind a NAT device that does not randomize ports. Public exploit code was made available on July 24, 2008.  At the time of this update, neither X-Force nor IBM MSS has witness any active exploitation nor the integration of this exploit into any exploit toolkits. Read More

The Microsoft Windows GDI+ API (Gdiplus.dll) is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows that could result in remote code execution. Read More

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