In a recent Reuters article, Italian security researcher Rosario Valotta described a new zero-day attack on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser that he has named “cookiejacking.” The main idea behind cookiejacking has actually been around for several years now—better-known names for this technique are side-jacking or session hijacking. However, what Rosario discovered is a new delivery [...]
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Longhaus and Business Aspect board member Sam Higgins, IBRS analyst James Turner, NetWitness chief security officer Eddie Schwartz, Kaspersky CEO Eugene Kaspersky, and columnist and techspert Stilgherrian talk cloud security. Read entire article [...] In a recent Reuters article, Italian security researcher Rosario Valotta described a new 0-day attack on Microsoft’s IE browser, that he’s named “Cookiejacking”. The main idea of Cookiejacking has actually been around for several years now – better known names for this technique are “side-jacking” or session hijacking; however what Rosario has discovered is [...] Yesterday, I read an article that reported how our counterparts at Sophos “slammed Microsoft” over its reported malware blocking stats for SmartScreen® Application Reputation built-in Internet Explorer (IE) 7, 8, and 9. This issue was much too interesting for me to not follow up with my own thoughts. Having also read the Microsoft blog article as [...] It can be recalled that Mariposa made headlines when three alleged operators were arrested in Spain prior to the supposed shutdown of the botnet itself. This incident was followed by a sudden and drastic decrease in Mariposa-related incidents, which was very much understandable because the botnet was reported to have already been taken down. Lately [...] |
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