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If an attacker can entice a user to visit an attacker controlled web page, the vulnerable ActiveX control could be invoked to download an attacker-modified package.

According to Apple's advisory accompanying the patch, the actual vulnerability was not in the Safari browser but in the way ATS (Apple Type Services) handles certain fonts.

The attacks occurred mostly on WordPress blogs hosted by Network Solutions but it appears that there are multiple security weaknesses in play.

The flaw occurs because the Java-Plugin Browser is running "javaws.exe" without validating command-line parameters.

Adobe is suggesting that users configure its PDF Reader product to limit the damage from an attack.

For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity.Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on their country of origin, followed by an attempt to [...]

The way most people remove malicious software from an infected Windows machine can be improved upon.

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The current zero-day attacks against Adobe Flash Player are not quite zero-day after all.   According to new information, Adobe’s security response team knew about the vulnerability since December 31, 2008 (see image below) but it was misdiagnosed as a “data loss corruption” issue.When word of the attacks surfaced this week, Adobe quickly locked access to [...]

Guest editorial by Oliver DayChinese military leaders have always been aware of the military advantage the US has over the People’s Liberation Army.  Reading through their published assessments of Sino-US war possibilities confirm our belief that we would dominate them in the air, land and sea.  However the PLA was born of asymmetric warfare and [...]

PC Magazine - How is your personal information protected on the Web? The Federal Trade Commission sought to clarify that question this week with the release of updated principles regarding online behavioral advertising.