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Current Wireless Devices Lack Real Security Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:45 PM PST "The fact is when it comes to security if you’re using a wireless device for voice or data you might as well be standing in any international airport and speaking to a colleague over a megaphone. Oh, and you might want to slow down from time to time to let the crowd around you take notes. Although no one quite put it that way, that is the crux of the opinion of numerous experts I spoke to about using the current crop of wireless devices for voice or data. The Center for Strategic a

Unibody' MacBook users report lockups with third-party RAM One user says an Apple engineer told him an update is coming "December 8, 2008 (Computerworld) Some users of new MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops are reporting that their machines become unstable or lock up after they add third-party memory, according to messages posted on Apple Inc.'s support forum. Users of Apple's newest laptops -- the aluminum-cased models that the company debuted in October -- claim that upgrading with RAM from reputable suppliers leaves their laptops prone to crashes and lockups. "Mine freezes after about 7 hou

Microsoft issues mammoth security update, biggest in five years Fixes 28 flaws in Windows, Office, IE, ActiveX development tools and more "December 9, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. today patched 28 vulnerabilities, nearly all of them marked "critical," in the biggest batch of fixes it has issued since it switched to a regular monthly update schedule more than five years ago. Of the 28 bugs quashed today, Microsoft ranked 23 of them critical, the top rating in its four-step scoring system. Of the five others, three were judged to be "important," the next step down, and two were pegged as

New trojan in mass DNS hijack Single box pollutes entire LAN By Dan Goodin in San Francisco "Researchers have identified a new trojan that can tamper with a wide array of devices on a local network, an exploit that sends them to impostor websites even if they are hardened machines that are fully patched or run non-Windows operating systems. The malware is a new variant of the DNSChanger, a trojan that has long been known to change the domain name system settings of PCs and Macs alike. According to researchers with anti-virus provider McAfee's Avert Labs, the update allows a single infected mac

NVIDIA Reveals New PhysX Licenses with Electronic Arts, 2K Games Matt Peckham "Here's something to put on your 2009 checklist: more realistic in-game physics. You know, the extra math in a virtual world that can transform the flat, instantaneous stain from a tomato flung at a wall into a pulpy, drooling mess of spatter. Now insert whatever your M-Rated imagination cares to conjure in place of "tomato." They're not promising tomatoes or anything else just yet, but game publishers Electronic Arts and 2K Games just announced that both companies are licensing NVIDIA's PhysX technology, "the world

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Sun Patches Java Bugs Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Sunday, December 07, 2008 7:37 AM PST "Sun patched at least 14 vulnerabilities in Java last week as it updated the popular software to version 6.0, build 11. The release notes for Java 1.6.0_11 , as Sun dubbed the update, skimped on details about the security flaws that were patched, but listed a total of 14 alerts, each of which will presumably provide information about at least one vulnerability. Those alerts have not yet been published, however, leaving users in the dark about the specifics of what has been patched. Sun also addressed 34 no

Microsoft Readies Eight New Security Patches Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Sunday, December 07, 2008 6:10 AM PST "Microsoft Corp. will deliver eight security updates next week, six of them marked "critical," to plug holes in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and other products. Two of the eight updates will patch Windows, another two are aimed at Office, while the remaining four target Internet Explorer (IE), SharePoint, Windows Media Player, and Visual Basic and Visual Studio, Microsoft said today in its monthly advance warning of what to expect next Tuesday. One of the two updates slated for

December 4, 2008 4:36 PM PST Koobface virus hits Facebook Posted by Robert Vamosi A worm responsible for sending Facebook users malicious code appears to be limited in nature, although the social engineering attack may be used again, say experts. Facebook representative Barry Schnitt said the worm isn't new; it dates back to August, although the variant that first appeared on Wednesday targets only Facebook users. Craig Schmugar, threat researcher for McAfee Avert Labs, confirmed this in a call with CNET News and said that, in general, Koobface strikes only social-networking sites. After r

Highly critical ...... Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Sun Java, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, disclose sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of service), or compromise a vulnerable system. Full details Secunia .. http://secunia.com/advisories/32991/ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Trillian Multiple Vulnerabilities Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Trillian, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. 1) A b

Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for December 2008 Published: December 4, 2008 Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: December 4, 2008 Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: December 9, 2008 This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on December 9, 2008. This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the December bulletin summary on December 9, 2008. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification. To receive automatic noti

Dec3 2008 Bogus McDonald’s, Coca-Cola Promos Used as Worm Carriers by Maydalene Salvador (Anti-spam Research Engineer) Seems like McDonald’s and Coca-Cola are cybercriminals’ promoters of choice this season–two spoofed emails that claim to be from both of the highly popular brands were recently found by the Trend Micro Content Security Team. Each messages trumpets a Christmas promotion, and instructs the recipient to open the attached coupon contained in a .ZIP file. Trend Micro already blocks such messages, and detects both attached files through the Smart Protection Network as WORM

Will Apple Finally Admit Macs Need Protection? Preston Gralla, Computerworld "A day after the blogosphere noted that Apple has finally admitted Macs need anti-virus software, Apple has pulled a KnowledgeBase article recommending that Mac users install security software. When will Apple finally admit Macs need protection? As I pointed out in a previous post, Apple: We admit it --- Macs need anti-virus software, an Apple KnowledgeBase article recommended that Mac users use anti-virus software. Here's what it had to say: Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so t

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Microsoft: Xbox 360 Routs PS3 in Record Black Friday Sales Matt Peckham Dec. 2, 2008 "It's a Microsoft press release, so handle with care, but the company's claiming it did more than admirably on Black Friday, it hit the ball out of the park. Not only did the Xbox 360 outsell Sony's PlayStation 3 by three-to-one, says Microsoft, but the 360 managed its best Black Friday sales ever, including a 25 percent lift over 2007 figures. "We entered into the Black Friday sales period with cautious optimism, knowing that dollar for dollar, Xbox 360 offers more social entertainment value than any other co

2 December 2008, 10:46 "Email Trojans threaten to block email accounts A new wave of trojans is rolling through the net. This time, the emails bearing the Trojan warn that the recipient's email account will be blocked within a few hours: Subject: The email address [email protected] is being blocked Ladies and Gentlemen, Due to misuse, your email address "[email protected]" will be blocked within the next 24 hours. We have received 98 complaints of spam being sent from it. Details and possible ways to ublock your account can be found in the attachment. The subject and text contain th

Ubuntu Security Notice - imagemagick vulnerability (USN-681-1) =========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-681-1 December 01, 2008 imagemagick vulnerability CVE-2008-1096 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 7.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: imagemagick 6:

Apple tells Mac users: Get anti-virus Bragging rights diminish by 12% in face of growing threat By John Leyden 2nd December 2008 11:33 GMT "For the first time, Apple is recommending the use of anti-virus tools to protect Mac systems.Long something of a phantom menace, strains of malware capable of infecting Mac machines have gradually been increasing in prevalence over recent months. In addition, VXers are making more use of web-based attack and applications specific vulnerabilities to infect PCs whatever their underlying operating system might be.Windows-specific malware attacks are still o

Microsoft Warns of Worm Attack on Windows Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Saturday, November 29, 2008 8:43 AM PST "Security researchers at Microsoft Corp. last week warned of a significant climb in exploits of a Windows bug it patched with an emergency fix last month, confirming earlier reports by Symantec Corp. Microsoft again urged users to apply the MS08-067 patch if they have not already done so. The new attacks, which Microsoft's Malware Protection Center said began last weekend but spiked in the past week, use the same worm Symantec first spotted Nov. 21. Dubbed "Conficker.a" by Microsoft an

µTorrent for Mac is go By Chris Williams 28th November 2008 11:39 GMT "Mac users are finally being offered their own version of µTorrent, the most popular BitTorrent client. µTorrent for Mac came out in beta yesterday. Version 0.90 is compatible with OSX Leopard only and the developers warn there may be "serious bugs". The port boasts the "lightweight power and performance" that saw the PC version quickly overtake more established software following its release in 2005. Exponents praise µTorrent's mix of tiny resource requirements and a feature set that matches much hungrier clients. It

November 28, 2008 - 2:59 P.M. Picasa 3: Great Linux photo software "Underneath the hood, Picasa isn't a native Linux application. It's actually a Windows program running under Wine, an open-source version of the Windows API (application programming interface). Picasa includes all the tools you'd expect from an easy-to-use photo editing program. These include cropping, red-eye editing, straighten images, and so on. It also makes all these functions easy to use, including the somewhat fancier ones such as adding tints or turning a color image into black and white or sepia. It also has features

BlackBerry Desktop Software FlexNET Connect ActiveX Control Vulnerability Highly critical Description: A vulnerability has been reported in BlackBerry Desktop Software, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to the inclusion of a vulnerable FlexNET Connect ActiveX control. For more information: SA25501 The vulnerability is reported in versions 4.2.2 through 4.7. Solution: Apply patches. Please see the vendor's advisory for more details. https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/...cod...B93E4F3BB068C22 Original Advisory: http://

Group Test: AMD Radeon HD 4000 series By Leo Waldock 27th November 2008 09:02 GMT “Round up When AMD updated the RV670 chip used in the ATI Radeon HD 3000 series to the RV770 in the HD 4000 line, it went ballistic and increased the number of unified shaders from 320 to 800. This change increased performance by a healthy amount and made the HD 4850 the apple of Register Hardware’s eye. But that was only the start of the story. The HD 3850 was a decent graphics card but the 320 shaders in the RV670 core didn’t give AMD much scope to conjure up a range of products based on the same chip. In

http://secunia.com/advisories/32876/ SUSE Update for Mozilla Products HIGHLY CRITICAL Security Bypass Exposure of system information Exposure of sensitive information System access Secunia Advisory: SA32876 Release Date: 2008-11-26 Description: SUSE has issued an update for MozillaFirefox, MozillaThunderbird, and seamonkey. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, or compromise a user's system. For more information: SA32693 SA32714 SA32715 Solution: Apply updated packages. x86 P