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Entries from April 2007

E-Gold charged with money laundering

April 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Federal prosecutors claim the company and its owners violated federal funds transfer laws, saying it knowingly served online scammers, identity thieves and child pornographers.
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Tags: Cybercrime · Government · Security · SecurityFocus

A Mac gets whacked, a second survives

April 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Researchers use a previously unknown flaw in Apple’s Safari browser to compromise a MacBook Pro and win the PWN to Own contest, but does the hack actually prove anything?
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UPDATE: More on the vulnerability, which is a Java flaw in QuickTime.

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Tags: Consumer Tech · Flaws and vulnerabilities · Research · Security · SecurityFocus · Software

MacBooks withstand mild attacks on patch day

April 19th, 2007 · No Comments

On the same day that Apple releases an update for its Mac OS X, security professionals at a conference in Canada show little initial interest in attempting to crack the security of two MacBook Pros.
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Tags: Flaws and vulnerabilities · Research · Security · SecurityFocus · Software

Attackers improve on JavaScript trickery

April 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Latest malicious software throws in more obfuscation and works harder to foil defenders’ attempts at reverse engineering.
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Tags: Consumer Tech · Flaws and vulnerabilities · Research · Security · SecurityFocus

U.S. agencies get ‘C-’ for computer security

April 13th, 2007 · No Comments

In an annual report card mandated by federal law, two dozen federal agencies improve their average grade slightly from last year’s ‘D+’.
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Tags: Critical infrastructure · Government · Homeland Security · Security · SecurityFocus

Developers warned to secure AJAX design

April 4th, 2007 · No Comments

A flaw in the way many asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) frameworks use the scripting to communicate data between a server and client allows malicious sites to hijack the conversation.
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Tags: Flaws and vulnerabilities · Research · Security · SecurityFocus