Firefox 18.0.2 released

February 5, 2013

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/18.0.2/releasenotes/ There are several unresolved issues and a huge list of Bug Fixes including JavaScript related stability issues: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/18.0.2/releasenotes/buglist.html 18.0.2 added a check to Options > Privacy > Accept third-party cookies, which I preferred to uncheck. If you do not receive an update notice when using the application, select “Check for Updates” from the Help [...]

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Dell Buyout

February 4, 2013

CNN: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom/articles/2013_02_04_dell_buyout_deal_is_reportedly_near.html Tags: This and That

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Twitter “attack was not the work of amateurs”

February 3, 2013

Bits from Bill February 02, 2013 Updating your Twitter Password Isn’t Enough Today, the public news report is that information from approximately 250,000 Twitter accounts was stolen. Twitter has taken action but I recommend you do more than just change your password. Even if you don’t use Twitter this attack may still affect you. Continued [...]

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FTC Staff Report Recommends Ways to Improve Mobile Privacy Disclosures

February 2, 2013

The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s chief privacy agency, issued a staff report recommending ways that key players in the rapidly expanding mobile marketplace can better inform consumers about their data practices. The report makes recommendations for critical players in the mobile marketplace: mobile platforms (operating system providers, such as Amazon, Apple, BlackBerry, Google, and [...]

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Another Java zero-day claimed

January 16, 2013

KrebsonSecurity Less than 24 hours after Oracle patched a dangerous security hole in its Java software that was being used to seize control over Windows PCs, miscreants in the Underweb were already selling an exploit for a different and apparently still-unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Java, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/01/new-java-exploit-fetches-5000-per-buyer/ http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/01/17/yet-another-java-zero-day-claimed-but-this-time-youre-laughing-right/ Tags: Exploits-Krebs

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Critical Security Fix for Java released

January 14, 2013

Release Notes: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u11-relnotes-1896856.html If you have disabled Java in the Java Control Panel, you will need to manually re-enable it after installing this release. You can find the check box in the Security tab of the Java Control Panel. If you have previously disabled Java Plugin in the browser, you will need to manually re-enable [...]

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification out-of-band release

January 13, 2013

TechNet Published: Sunday, January 13, 2013 Version: 2.0 This is an advance notification for one out-of-band security bulletin that Microsoft is intending to release on January 14, 2013. The bulletin addresses a security vulnerability in Internet Explorer. This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the January bulletin summary on January 14, 2013. For more [...]

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Zero-Day Java Exploit

January 10, 2013

AlienVault Labs: New year, new Java zeroday! Earlier this morning @Kafeine alerted us about a new Java zeroday being exploited in the wild. With the files we were able to obtain we reproduced the exploit in a fully patched new installation of Java. As you can see below we tricked the malicious Java applet to [...]

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Microsoft Malware Protection Center: rogue v ransomware

January 10, 2013

MSFT-MMPC Blog Making the most of fear and deception – rogue v ransomware (part 1) Fear can be a great motivator for getting someone to act on the receipt of a message (think public health messages regarding smoking, or wearing sunscreen). Add some deception in there, and you have a powerful tool of illegitimate influence [...]

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Firefox 18.0 released

January 9, 2013

Release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/18.0/releasenotes/ If you do not receive an update notice when using the application, select “Check for Updates” from the Help menu. Or download: https://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html Tags: Firefox-Update

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