Although the Foursquare check-in service was only supposed to divulge users’ locations to their friends, it was possible to trace users movements by using scripts to permanently monitor locations
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Source: The H Security
Archive for July, 2010
Spammers are currently sending out large numbers of phishing emails entitled “Wikipedia e-mail address confirmation” that are designed to trick people into visiting compromised web pages
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Source: The H Security
One morning when checking my emails, one subject line really drew my attention: “Air France Flight 447 (crash pictures)”. The email claimed that images on the camera memory stick of a passenger on the crashed plane had been successfully reconstructed and could now be viewed in the attached PowerPoint presentation. When someone is trying that hard, my alarms go off
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Source: The H Security
Google has released version 5.0.375.99 of Chrome, a security update that addresses four “high” risk vulnerabilities in its WebKit-based browser, and a new Dev channel release that on Windows systems enables the new consolidated menu by default
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Source: The H Security
Despite the recent update, the protection against Adobe PDF /launch attacks is incomplete. By enclosing the commands they embed in PDF documents in double quotation marks, attackers can bypass the protection
Source: The H Security
