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Social networks - a criminal's best friend or her enemy?

2009-11-27
Introduction Various aspects, which have to do with social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace, have been discussed in different security articles this year. This time we ... more >>

Lots of free email accounts compromised

2009-10-15

Earlier this month multiple tens of thousand passwords to free email accounts from Microsoft (Hotmail), Google (GMail) and Yahoo were compromised.

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Compromised telephone conversations

2009-09-03

Listening in to telephone conversations is traditionally associated with initiatives from national security agencies / police organizations with vast resources, or shady private detectives. This may not be the case any more if the person or persons under surveillance use a particular system for telephone calls.

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Your PC as an Internet server with a few clicks

2009-06-25

Software to set up any computer as an Internet resource has been freely available for a long time. However, the threshold to do so has been so high that not everyone has felt that this can be accomplished without some special skills. This situation may now change with a new initiative.

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Shockwave Flash (SWF) Exploit

2010-03-04
Impact: Moderate Application: Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and earlier Vulnerability identifier: APSB08-11 CVE Number: CVE-2007-0071 Vulnerability details Adobe Flash Player is vulnerable to buffer ov...
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Internet Explorer (6/7/8) Remote Code Execution - Remote User Add Exploit

2010-03-04
Objective A malicious web site can be crafted using an exploit code that will allow IE (Internet Explorer) to be compromised and allow code to be executed on your computer. The more severe vulnerabili...
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Google Buzz and Reader CSRF Vulnerability

2010-02-26
Google recently launched a Twitter-like application called Google Buzz. We have established that the application is quite vulnerable to persistent CSRF attacks when data is pulled from external data f...
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