Before last January’s Chinese cyberspying scandal, “Google hacking” meant something rather different. For years, hackers have used the search engine to probe for security vulnerabilities around the Web: Search for certain lines of buggy code, and Google’s results turn up hundreds of sites that are ripe for exploits. Now two researchers hope to revive...
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Microsoft is furious with Vupen Security after it leaked information about two security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office 2010, even though the software package has only been out a few weeks. Vupen has identified 130 security flaws in 2010 alone, with most of them being in Microsoft products, which means that either Microsoft software is...
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Nearly a month after a Google engineer released details of a new Windows XP flaw, criminals have dramatically ramped up online attacks that leverage the bug. Microsoft reported Wednesday that it has now logged more than 10,000 attacks. “At first, we only saw legitimate researchers testing innocuous proof-of-concepts. Then, early on June 15th, the...
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Anyone running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 needs to update their registry ASAP. A critical bug in the Help and Support center was made public recently and Microsoft has neither a fix nor an estimate as to when a fix might be available. Worse still, sample code to exploit the bug is readily...
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Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that...
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BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhuanet) — Twitter has been hit by a bug that left users, including many celebrities, with no “followers”. The bug, believed to have been started by a user called Bora K?rca in Turkey, caused millions of users’ accounts around the world to temporarily lose the list of people who followed them...
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2000: The “I Love You” virus spreads to 55 million computers around the world. The damage reaches billions of dollars. It was the love letter heard round the world. A little over a year after the Melissa Virus shattered the internet’s innocence, a student in the Philippines got the idea to craft a Visual...
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Microsoft is scrambling to fix a bug in its SharePoint 2007 groupware after a Swiss firm abruptly released code that could be used in an attack. The proof-of-concept code was released Wednesday, just over two weeks after security consultancy High-Tech Bridge says it disclosed the issue to Microsoft on April 12. Although Microsoft hasn’t...
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It’s the end of April. Spring is here, and so is Ubuntu 10.04. Or at least, that’s the plan. Canonical’s rigid release schedule is awesome for many reasons — one of which is the amount of excitement it generates around each new Ubuntu release. However, I don’t think this is the kind of excitement...
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It’s the publicity around zero-day bugs that drive Windows users to patch their software quickly, not the fact that Microsoft sounds the alarm by issuing an emergency update, a researcher said today. Windows users rush to patch whenever a zero-day vulnerability is involved, even when Microsoft doesn’t deliver the fix in an out-of-band update,...
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