Microsoft took steps Tuesday to avoid repeating the debacle two months
ago that left Windows XP users staring at the notorious “Blue Screen of
Death” error message after they applied a patch. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
European researchers are proposing a paradigm-shifting solution to
trusted computing that offers better security and authentication with
none of the drawbacks that exist in the current state of the art. Read the full article. [Science Daily]
Google learned some hard security lessons after it was attacked late last year by hackers, said CEO Eric Schmidt.”Google is now particularly paranoid about that,” Schmidt said during a question-and-answer session following Google’s Atmosphere 2010 conference before about 400 CIOs. Read the full article. [CNet]
Later today, Microsoft will play it safe by patching a Windows 7 bug that it says can’t be exploited. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
When the final version of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 hits desktops later this year, it will bring with it new functionality designed to allow users to automatically clear Flash cookies after a Web session. But while the feature may be lauded in the name of privacy, it may also force online banks to change how they fight fraud. Read the full article. [eWEEK]
In this
Google TechTalk, HP’s Marc Stiegler describes a different approach to
security software.
A new technique allows medical records to be used for research on the
genetics of disease while still protecting patients from prying eyes. The new method disguises parts of the medical history data that are not
relevant to a geneticist’s particular research question using an
algorithm that combs through health records and makes some aspects of
them more general. Read the full article. [ScienceNews]
Malicious hackers have found a way to hijack WordPress database credentials and use that information to redirect thousands of blogs to Web sites laden with malware.The attacks, which started last Friday, occurred mostly on WordPress blogs hosted by Network Solutions but it appears that there are multiple security weaknesses in play.
An ongoing ransomware campaign is pretending to be the fake ICPP Foundation (icpp-online.com), where the ransomware locks down the user’s desktop issuing a “Copyright violation: copyrighted content detected” message which lists torrent files found on the infected PC and forces the user to pay $400 for the copyright holder’s fine and emphasizing “the maximum penalties can be five years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines.” Read the full article. [ZDNet]
Dennis Fisher and Ryan Naraine discuss the new vulnerability in Java, whether the Internet works without Java and the new operating system released by security researcher Joanna Rutkowska.[swf
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