Mozilla has released a new version of its flagship Firefox browser to fix a total of 11 vulnerabilities that expose users to code execution, information stealing or denial-of-service attacks. Four of the 11 flaws covered with the new Firefox 3.0.4 are rated “critical” because of the risk of code execution attacks via specially rigged [...]
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Google has seeded a new version of its Chrome browser to developers with fixes for a pair of security issues that could expose users to data theft. The issue, rated as a “moderate” risk could allow hackers to use HTML files to steal arbitrary files from a victim’s machine. Details below: r4188 and r4827 [...] A new round of PDF exploits are being pushed by websites pretending to be the US Federal Reserve. Several spammed email messages were intercepted starting last week advertising these fake Federal Reserve pages. Figure 1. Sample email message. This spam run is still continuing as of this writing, and it is now advertising more [...] Israeli software developer Gizmox is challenging hackers to try hacking into the company’s Visual WebGui Platform, by offering a $10,000 incentive to those who manage to achieve the objectives of their contest launched at the beginning of the month. What’s particularly interesting about the contest is the fact that the company is running the contest [...] All your accounting data are not belong to us. Hours after a proof of concept example detailing a XSS vulnetability at Google’s account login page was posted at the XSS Project’s clearing house, the company quickly took notice and fixed it.“Security researcher “Xylitol” is credited with the discovery of this critical bug. In this case, [...] |
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