Today Microsoft is making an effort to bring attention to the steps it has taken to reduce piracy of its software by announcing “anti-piracy day”.
Microsoft has created an interactive map that highlights the anti-piracy efforts of 49 different countries using interactive red dots and uses blue dots for comments made by end users duped into [...]
The recently reported clickjacking vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash Player could also allow a hacker to remotely activate a computer’s microphone and webcam (meaning they could see and hear what you were doing).
The Adobe Security Blog is reporting that a Flash Player patch should be available by the end of October and until it is released, [...]
Secunia is reporting a vulnerability with Autodesk’s Design Review DWF Viewer which can lead to a compromised PC.
The vulnerability stems from a flaw in the ActiveX control including the insecure “SaveAs()” method. If exploited, arbitrary files on the compromised computer can be overwritten.
This vulnerability was originally discovered by “bruiser” from Nine Situations Group and outlined [...]
Most new computers these days come preloaded with some form of Internet Security, usually McAfee or, *gasp*, Norton. These are usually in the form of a trial version for up to 15 months with the hopes that, when the trial period is expired you will be so intimidated by the thought of installing a different [...]
If you use the combination of Microsoft Windows and ZoneAlarm, the Microsoft Windows update released yesterday (KB951748) will cause a conflict with ZoneAlarm which will prevent users from connecting to the Internet.
The Microsoft update makes changes to the way that your computer handles DNS requests and ZoneAlarm does not recognize those changes and therefore blocks [...]
