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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Wordpress 2.8.4 Fixes A Big Security Hole
Time to upgrade your Wordpress sites. A vulnerability in versions prior to 2.8.4 could let the bad guys reset passwords. And there's a nasty worm infiltrating sites based on an older vulnerability in the code.
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SecureTweets for Twitter
Since Twitter is so hugely popular it makes sense that someone would create a tool to help protect users from malicious URLs within the posts at the site.
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Making Data "Vanish" Automatically
University of Washington researchers have a created a way to automate encryption key expiration, which means data can become inaccessible over a given period of time.
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July 23, 2009
Chrome OS - Who Would've Guessed?
By now you've heard the news that Google will eventually release an operating system called Chrome OS. There's no big surprise there. But the future of desktops might become surprising.
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Will ICANN Ban Top Level DNS Wildcarding?
Some registrars use wildcard DNS systems to redirect users to their own sites when a DNS lookup fails, which can occur in a variety of circumstances. ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee wants to ban the practice.
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June 17, 2009
Sniffing Browser History Without Javascript
Someone discovered a way to sniff sites from your browser history without using Javascript. Instead it uses an iframe that loads a server-side PHP script to do all the heavy lifting.
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Gmail to go with HTTPS by default
Webmail is inherently insecure for several different reasons - one of which being that without SSL your correspondence is easily sniffed and possibly even stored in your browser's cache.
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June 11, 2009
Google Posts Top 10 Malware Sites
Google released some statistics that reveal the top 10 malware sites in the world according to their site scanning research. You might want to blacklist all of them.
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June 10, 2009
More Firefox Add-on Controversy And An Impending Fix?
Firefox users were up in arms over a Microsoft .NET extension that was silently installed without direct user approval. The extension was a bit tedious to remove for some people. Mozilla could move to at least alert users of such an installation.
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June 10, 2009
StrongWebMail Weak On The Inside
Last week I mentioned StrongWebMail - a company that claimed they offer the strongest Web mail on the planet. That claim was proven false when a team of researchers bypassed security using an obvious inroad.
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