by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | Malware Reports, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the watch-what-you-click dept. The popular belief is that security risks increase as the user engages in riskier and shadier behavior online, but that apparently isn’t the case, Cisco found in its 2013 Annual Security report. It can be more dangerous to...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 31, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support
from the much-lower-than-expected dept. In a project that found more than 80 million unique IP addresses responding to Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) discovery requests, researchers at Rapid7 were shocked to find that somewhere between 40 and 50 million of those are...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 29, 2013 | HACKING, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the rome-wasn’t-built-in-5-years-either dept. Five years after the disclosure of a serious vulnerability in the Domain Name System dubbed the Kaminsky bug, only a handful of U.S. ISPs, financial institutions or e-commerce companies have deployed DNS...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 27, 2013 | SECURITY
On Saturday, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), Microsoft’s free anti-virus software package, stopped automatically updating its malware signatures on some systems. Users are also reporting that clicking on the “Update” button on the program...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 21, 2013 | Malware Reports, SECURITY
Recently, a 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2013-0422) was disclosed. Oracle promptly reacted on this 0-day vulnerability, and last weekend a new patch was made available. Here’s the advisory from Oracle. You can download latest JRE here. As the vulnerability is...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 21, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
NewScientist reports, ‘Along with birthdays, names of pets and ascending number sequences, add one more thing to the list of password no-nos: good grammar.’ Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University seem to have developed a password cracking algorithm...
