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“There is no magic fairy dust protecting Macs" – Dai Zovi, author of “The Mac Hacker’s Handbook"

Firefox security vulnerabilities

April 19th 2005

Information about more Firefox vulnerabilities has been released: Code execution through javascript: faviconshttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-37.html Arbitrary code execution from Firefox side panel IIhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-39.html The fix?  Disable javascript or update to Firefox 1.0.3. We can only hope that all of those Firefox users who changed browsers because they believe Firefox is ‘safe’ will find out about these and […]

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People can be so nice…

April 10th 2005

I received a lovely email today – I want to say thank you to Trish for ‘powering up the batteries’ so to speak.  It is so easy to get tired when fighting spyware and malware, but every so often we receive emails like this, that remind us why we keep going: “I cannot thank you […]

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Microsoft files phishing lawsuits

April 1st 2005

MICROSOFT is filing 117 lawsuits against unknown internet site operators it alleged were engaged in “phishing” schemes used to obtain personal and financial information from unsuspecting consumers.http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,12720333%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

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