Several major news outlets are reporting that the shutdown of a rouge ISP in the Bay Area has lead to a massive drop in the global amount of spam. While this is “good thing”, this event is not an end of spam, nor is it even the beginning of the end of spam; it [...]
After a mammoth October Patch Tuesday that was followed up by an emergency patch a week later, Microsoft is going lite on the security updates this month with two new fixes slated for tomorrow. One fixes a bug in Windows and Office, the other fixes a less critical flaw in Windows. Be on the lookout Tuesday around 1 p.m. EST for the updates.
One of the code execution vulnerabilities fixed in this month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday release dates back to 2001 when it was first disclosed by Cult of the Dead Cow hacker Sir Dystic (pictured left).
If that wasn’t cause for worry, get this: An exploit for the bug — in the way that Microsoft Server Message Block [...]
A flaw has been found in Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), currently the most widespread mode of Wi-Fi encryption, and some analysts are painting a gloomy picture. PC World reports that security researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck have found a hole in the WPA encryption protocol that malicious users could exploit to steal data sent [...]
