Google has pushed out another automatic Chrome browser update to fix multiple security issues that could expose users to hacker attacks.Google Chrome 5.0.375.55, available for Windows, Mac and Linux, addresses at least two “high risk” vulnerabilities and several security-related denial-of-service crashes.
A second US man has been jailed over controversial denial of service
attacks against the Church of Scientology two years ago. Read the full article. [The Register]
An unusual legal dispute between a Texas bank and a business customer
over the online theft of more than $800,000 from the latter’s account at
the bank has been quietly settled. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
There’s a potential threat lurking in your internet café, say University
of Calgary computer science researchers. It’s called Typhoid adware and
works in similar fashion to Typhoid Mary, the first identified healthy
carrier of typhoid fever who spread the disease to dozens of people in
the New York area in the early 1900s. Read the full article. [Science Daily]
A scareware purveyor has brazenly advertised for recruits on a
mainstream job market website. A job ad on Freelancer.com offers work for a coder prepared to turn his hand to the creation of fake anti-virus website redirection scripts. Read the full article. [The Register]
In this video, Aza Raskin of Mozilla demonstrates a new class of phishing attack in which the attacker is able to use malicious code in one browser tab to completely change the content in another tab on a victim’s browser.
Nearly one-third of all identity theft victims
say they are unable to completely clear up damaged credit or criminal
records in the aftermath of their identities being abused. But the good
news is they’re spending much less time and money cleaning up the fraud
perpetrated against them in their names, according to a newly released
report. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
After more than two years, Apple’s Safari browser for Macs remains
vulnerable to attacks that allow websites to litter a user’s hard drive
with thousands of malicious files. The “carpet bomb” vulnerability was publicly disclosed in May 2008 after members of Apple’s security team said they didn’t consider the quirk a security issue. Read the full article. [The Register]
For the second month in a row, Microsoft has tried to eradicate a
mutating rootkit that has blocked some Windows users from installing
security updates. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
Today’s attackers care less about the browser you use and more about
whether your third-party browser add-ons and plugins are out-of-date and
exploitable. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
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