According to the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team Blog, five products were updated yesterday by Adobe. Those products include Shockwave Player, Flash Media Server, Flash Player, Photoshop CS5, and RoboHelp. With four critical severity ratings and one important severity, it is important to read the security bulletins for any products on your network. … [Read more...]
2011 Pwnie Award Winners Announced For Achievements and Failures In Security
The 2011 Pwnie Awards were given for nine categories: Pwnie for Best Server-Side Bug Pwnie for Best Client-Side Bug Pwnie for Best Privilege Escalation Bug Pwnie for Most Innovative Research Pwnie for Lamest Vendor Response Pwnie for Best Song Pwnie for Most Epic FAIL Pwnie for Lifetime Achievement Pwnie for Epic Ownage Judges accepted nominations in each category … [Read more...]
Another Scam Via Snail Mail From The Internet – Domain Registry of America
The downfall of the WHOIS system for domain registration is that you leave yourself open to being contacted. Usually this might result in spam e-mail messages but every once in a while, scam attempts make their way through the postal mail. I previously wrote about a letter from Web Listings Inc with what looked like a bill for SEO services and received a few confirmations that … [Read more...]
Java 7.0 Now Available For Download
Oracle has announced that Java 7 is available for download. This is mostly news for developers because the new Java 7 features obviously aren't implemented in code that you're likely to encounter for a while. There are some new networking and security features listed briefly but the bigger new features seem to be aimed toward developers. Java SE 7 delivers: Language changes … [Read more...]
Google Notices Malware and Warns Users
Google shared today that it has noticed some unusual traffic coming across its sites when computers infected with a specific malware visit them online. Google is then using that information to notify users that their computers are likely compromised with an alert at the top of their pages. This particular malware causes infected computers to send traffic to Google through a … [Read more...]