Microsoft has announced a security bulletin outlining a vulnerability in the way Windows handles animated cursors. MS is advising people to not click on any unknown emails, or any unsafe or questionable websites:
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of
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A new Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) system has been recently introduced to the Police force in Utah and California, and is now standard equipment on their patrol cars. These special cameras can automatically “read” license plates — 3,000…
Whereas the current fingerprinting technique is fairly cumbersome and gives results that are not always clear and reproducible, this new method developed by a team of scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, will give clearer pictures in…
Who would have thought that the trusty old photocopier would become the next biggest identity theft tool? With companies equipping hard drives into them, there is no telling how your information will be used after you run of a…
An Atlanta-based computer company has performed security tests that showed that 56% of the US area computers were open targets for hackers. The warning was issued following the RSA Conference in San Francisco last February and recommended the greatest…
Thanks to Third Eye Inc., employers will be able to monitor their staff using a non-invasive wrist-mounted device that reports heart-rate fluctuations. When an employee engages in stressful activity — such as dealing with…
Microsoft silently released a patch that closes off holes in the tamper protection mechanism in its Xbox 360. This mechanism prevents users from running their own applications and alternative OSes like LINUX, but was defeated in December at a hacker…
Well, it was actually more than Eavesdropping. This employee was not only recording conversations between Wal-Mart and its Public Relations firm, but the employee was also intercepting text messages and pages that did not belong to Wal-Mart employees. Currently, no…
If Vista wasn’t having enough problems capturing market share, their OneCare product recently placed at the very bottom during an independent test of AntiVirus products. Here’s what the Redmond Officials had to say…
“We recently learned that AV Comparatives conducted
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It was only a matter of time till Microsoft’s great Anti-Piracy and Software Activation was cracked by an elite group of crackers. How’d they do it?
“It is based on the ACPI_SLIC table in the motherboard BIOS. This allows OEM
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If you recently upgraded to 2.1.1, the last update to WordPress, you must update to 2.1.2 immediately. WordPress warns that files in the 2.1.1 archive were cracked and contains malicious code. If you are running WordPress, please download that…
Really now… Is anyone surprised? Although the vulnerabilities aren’t supposed to be high risk, there is potential for sensitive data to be leaked.
The French Security Incident Response Team said in an alert that the IE vulnerability, which also affects
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