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Posted by: Webmaster on Wednesday, July 08, 2009 - 09:14 AM 82 Reads

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Microsoft Corp. has taken the rare step of warning about a serious computer security vulnerability it hasn't fixed yet.

The vulnerability disclosed Monday affects Internet Explorer users whose computers run the Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 operating software.

It can allow hackers to remotely take control of victims' machines. The victims don't need to do anything to get infected except visit a Web site that's been hacked.

Security experts say criminals have been attacking the vulnerability for nearly a week. Thousands of sites have been hacked to serve up malicious software that exploits the vulnerability. People are drawn to these sites by clicking a link in spam e-mail.

Note: -By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer

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Posted by: Webmaster on Friday, June 05, 2009 - 09:40 PM 111 Reads

A couple of weeks ago, It was all about the new Wolfram Alpha search engine and it was news chatterr all over the web for nearly 2 weeks. This week, Microsoft’s new Bing search engine is getting a lot of press.

At first glance, the Bing search engine looks clean and fresh. Searching is ultra-fast and easy to read. Like Google, however, the Bing search engine also presents many ads at the top and sides of the search results. In fact, the layout of Bing and its results eerily (or blatantly) match that of Google.

The true test of this new search engine will be the results it provides. I will test it from time-to-time, but it will take awfully good search results to tear me from Google.

What about you? Have you tried Bing? What are your thoughts on its design and results?

Note: by Rick Castellini of http://helpmerick.com/

Posted by: Webmaster on Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 09:13 AM 128 Reads

The attackers behind a series of rapidly spreading website compromises have begun using a new domain to deliver their malicious code, security experts said on Monday.

The attacks, collectively referred to as 'Gumblar' by ScanSafe and 'Troj/JSRedir-R' by Sophos, grew 188 percent over the course of a week, ScanSafe said on Thursday. The Gumblar infections accounted for 42 percent of all infections found on websites last week, Sophos said on Thursday.

Over the weekend, the Chinese web domain used to deliver the malicious code — gumblar.cn — stopped responding, according to Unmask Parasites, a service used to detect malicious code embedded in web pages. The attacks' malicious payload has, however, continued to be delivered from a different source, the martuz.cn domain, Unmask Parasites said in an advisory published on Monday.

Note: By Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk

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Posted by: Webmaster on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 09:49 AM 103 Reads

The first documented bug in the Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100) is a doozy.

Yesterday, Microsoft published Knowledge Base article 970789, which provides details of a problem that affects the 32-bit (x86) English-language version of Windows 7 build 7100. The problem, in short, is that the installer incorrectly sets access control lists (ACLs) on the root of the system drive. The longer version is described as follows:

In the English version of Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100) 32-bit Ultimate, the folder that is created as the root folder of the system drive (<var>%SystemDrive%</var>) is missing entries in its security descriptor. One effect of this problem is that standard users such as non-administrators cannot perform all operations to subfolders that are created directly under the root. Therefore, applications that reference folders under the root may not install successfully or may not uninstall successfully. Additionally, operations or applications that reference these folders may fail.

Note: by Ed Bott of ZDNet

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Posted by: Webmaster on Friday, April 03, 2009 - 07:27 AM 157 Reads

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - The Conficker worm's April 1st trigger date came and went without the bedeviling computer virus causing any mischief but security specialists warn that the threat is far from over.

Conficker did just what the "white hats" tracking it expected -- the virus evolved to better resist extermination and make its masters tougher to find.

"There are still millions of personal computers out there that are, unknown to their owners, at risk of being controlled in the future by persons unknown," said Trend Micro threat researcher Paul Ferguson.

"The threat is still there. These guys are smart; they are not going to pull any obvious strings when there are so many eyeballs on the problem."

Note: By by Glenn Chapman of Yahoo Tech News

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