Security researchers from Zscaler have detected web attacks in which links to drive-by exploits are obfuscated by converting IP addresses to DWORD.DWORD is 32-bit integer representation of a string, but technical explanations aside, what is important to know is that browsers can automatically parse DWORD values if en... |
5 August 2011
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Microsoft has released a new report about its progress in dismantling the Rustock botnet which shows that during the past three months its size was reduced by half.The Rustock botnet, once the world's primary source of spam, was taken down in March in a coordinated effort that saw the participation of Microsoft&... |
6 July 2011
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Microsoft confirmed that two misconfigured servers located on its network were compromised and abused by a gang of Canadian pharmacy spammers.The incident was reported by The Register two days ago, after receiving information from a California-based security researcher named Ronald F. Guilmette, who tracks spam opera... |
14 October 2010
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Christopher Boyd, Director of Malware Research for FaceTime Security Labs and Microsoft Security MVP, has come across a security flaw on the popular free image hosting service ImageShack through which anyone could have downloaded the log file associated with any image. Such a log file contains the IP address which wa... |
29 September 2008
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The British Government wants all necessary information in order to track the activity of all Internet users in the country. This means that authorities would know, at any time, the content, place and time of any given chat conversation. Also, state officials would have access to details about the equipment used to na... |
14 August 2008
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