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The CERT_org issued an alert on Seagate wireless disks because they contain multiple flaws that could be exploited to download their entire content.
CERT.org issued a warning related Seagate wireless disk because they include a hidden login, most exactly a Telnet services that is not documented.
Apple has patched a total of nine vulnerabilities with the release of QuickTime 7.7.8 for Windows.
Responding to allegations from anonymous ex-employees, security firm Kaspersky Lab has denied planting misleading information in its public virus reports as a way to foil competitors.
Malicious actors can exploit vulnerabilities in BitTorrent, the popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol, to launch distributed reflective denial-of-service (DRDoS) attacks, researchers warned at the recent USENIX conference.
SO YOU FINALLY INSTALLED WINDOWS 10 AND JOINED THE RANKS OF THE OTHER 67 MILLION USERS. YOU OPEN YOUR BROWSER TO SEARCH FOR A PLACE TO GRAB LUNCH, AND BING ALREADY KNOWS YOUR LOCATION. YOU NOTICE THAT ALL THE BANNER ADS ARE GEARED TOWARD YOUR SECRET KNITTING HOBBY. AND WHEN YOU OPEN CORTANA TO ASK WHAT'S GOING ON, SHE KNOWS YOUR NAME AND THE EMBARRASSING NICKNAME YOUR MOTHER CALLS YOU.
Remember the days when security awareness programs only had to warn employees about website spoofing? Unfortunately, cyber-attack methods have advanced to the point where even trusted, well-known websites can silently infect users via drive-by download attacks. Last year's NBC.com incident is a good example of this growing Internet threat.
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a vulnerability inTor which lead the identification of hidden services with up to 88 percent accuracy.