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05.24.2006 - 11:39 AM
Today we had an email from a customer requesting that we explain why we were classifying a large international airline as a malicious website within our product. The URL in question was hxx://www.laoairles.com. It turns out that one of our algorithmic classifiers started classifying this as of May 19th, 2006 as malicious due to a change...
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Call from: 0000123456...Skype URI handling vulnerability.
05.22.2006 - 11:20 AM
Security Assesment (http://www.Security-Assessment.com) recently reported a new flaw within Skype. There is currently a fix available on the Skype site along with s...
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MS Word "Zero-day" exploit in the wild.
05.19.2006 - 11:18 AM
A new MS Word exploit has been discovered in the wild. The exploit downloads a backdoor that has rootkit-like components.
The backdoor once active on the system connects to specified host and...
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Hacktivism...wide scale defacement on more than 20,000 sites.
05.19.2006 - 9:10 AM
Zone-H, the popular defacement reporting website, reported that more than 20,000 websites have been compromised and defaced. The sites were hacked by someone with the handle "Iskorpitx" and displayed the Turkish flag along with ...
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05.18.2006 - 7:52 AM
With Myspace popularity exploding it was only a matter of time. There have been reports of a phishing attack which targets Myspace customers by requesting login det...
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05.15.2006 - 9:24 AM
This morning we released our seventh annual Web@Work Survey (<a href="http://www.w...
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Microsoft ITSS heap corruption...risk ?
05.10.2006 - 11:28 AM
A heap corruption vulnerability has been discovered in the library responsible for loading CHM files (itss.dll). This vulnerability can be triggered by opening a specially-crafted malicious CHM file on the victim's computer. However, normal CHM fi...
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Previous Posts
May 2006
| 05.24.2006 | The mystery of Lao Airlines. » |
| 05.22.2006 | Call from: 0000123456...Skype URI handling vulnerability. » |
| 05.19.2006 | MS Word "Zero-day" exploit in the wild. » |
| 05.19.2006 | Hacktivism...wide scale defacement on more than 20,000 sites. » |
| 05.18.2006 | With phame comes phishing. » |
| 05.15.2006 | 2006 Web @ Work survey out. » |
| 05.10.2006 | Microsoft ITSS heap corruption...risk ? » |
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