Mark Joseph Edwards is a senior contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and writes the weekly email newsletter Security UPDATE (http://www.windowsitpro.com/email). He is a network engineer and the author of Internet Security with Windows NT (29th Street Press). Email address: http://www.ntshop.net Web site: http://www.ntshop.net Blog: http://www.winnetmag.com/securitymatters
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March 18, 2009
BBC Rents a Botnet, People Complain
Spencer Kelly over at BBC News rented a botnet and took it for a spin. His antics including sending 10,000 spams and that drew the ire of Sophos' Asia-Pacific head of technology Paul Ducklin.
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March 18, 2009
Firefox 3.5 Just Around The Corner
Beta 4 of the next version of Firefox is due out in April, complete with a new version number of 3.5. When it officially releases later this year it'll sport a new private browsing mode.
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Wireshark 1.0.6
If you're using Wireshark and haven't upgraded to version 1.0.6. then you ought to do so. The new version fixes several vulnerabilities.
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March 2, 2009
Adobe Releases Critical Updates
An update for Adobe Flash Player fixes 5 critical vulnerabilities while another update fixes 2 vulnerabilities in RoboHelp. The company intends to fix a critical flaw in Adobe Reader and Acrobat next week.
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SSL Attacks Show Users Can Be Duped
A recent presentation at the Blackhat conference shows that user's will easily fall into SSL man-in-the-middle attacks, thereby disclosing all sorts of private information.
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February 20, 2009
Facebook Presents A Serious Security Problem
Facebook did an aboutface this week after thousands of users protested the company's overzealous attempt at a gigantic intellectual property grab. Facebook basically wants a perpetual retroactive unrestricted license to everything you put on the site.
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Data Leaks Abound And No One Is Safe
Kaiser Permanente lost control of data that belongs to over 29,000 employees, Kaspersky had it's customer cracked wide open and so did BitDefender. A US congressmen failed to keep his mouth shut, and a government security contractor failed miserably.
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January 28, 2009
iPod Leads to Military Data Leak
You never know what you might find on used MP3 player, or used hard disk for that matter. A New Zealand man was surprised to learn that his $18 used iPod purchase yielded sensitive US military data.
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Networking To Stop Malware
Pooling and analyzing data properly could help stop malware more effectively. Seems like a no-brainer but so far no one has a released a product to do it effectively. But that might change soon.
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MD5 Collisions Put PKI At Risk
A new paper outlines how it's possible to use MD5 collisions to spoof a legitimate certificate authority's certificate, which means you could spoof the security of nearly any site - even banks.
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