Stories tagged "vulnerability"

The Secunia PSI utility scans Windows systems to provide a clear guide of applications that need patching. It provides links to download locations, detailed advisories from Secunia on the flaws and information of where utilities are installed.

More than a month after Microsoft issued an emergency patch for a Windows vulnerability that allows for self-replicating exploits, researchers have spotted a wave of new attacks in the wild that target the critical flaw.

Google security pros have taken exception to recent reports of a Gmail vulnerability that led to a rash of domain hijackings. They were the result of a plain-vanilla phishing campaign, they say.

The midlife transition presents a couple with what may be the greatest challenge of their lives together: to respond to the complex issues generated by the midlife transition by becoming more self-aware and by learning to deepen their levels of communicat

Engineers from CoreLabs determined that Adobe Reader could be exploited to gain access to vulnerable systems via the use of a specially crafted PDF file with malicious JavaScript content.

Sequoia's AVC Advantage voting machine can be completely compromised by replacing a single ROM chip - a task that researchers were able to complete in only seven minutes.

Internet voting is getting its first prime-time test for overseas voters from Okaloosa County, Florida. PopularMechanics finds that experts remain skeptical about the operation, and that we won't be voting from home any time soon.

Swiss researchers have demonstrated a variety of ways to eavesdrop on the sensitive messages computer users type by monitoring their wired keyboards.

Opera has patched a brace of critical vulnerabilities with the release of the latest version 9.60 of its web browser.

Underscoring the severity of a new class of vulnerability known as clickjacking, a blogger has created a proof-of-concept game that uses a PC's video cam and microphone to secretly spy on the player.