Antispam puzzles thwarting humans, as well
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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a human -- until you fill out a captcha. Captchas are the puzzles on many websites that present a string of distorted letters and numbers. These are supposed to be easy for people to read and retype, but hard for computer software to figure out.
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Fixes made for "critical" JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox browser and the SeaMonkey application suite.
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Malware arrives in the form of a game, disables antivirus protection.
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Skype warns users password-stealing Trojan horse is making the rounds, disguised as a Skype security plug-in
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Email threats are getting more and more sophisticated as spam, viruses, phishing, and spyware blend together. Learn how to thwart today's sophisticated blended threats.
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Attacks on instant messaging systems are getting better at targeting users, study finds.
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - An antispam technology proposed by Microsoft Corp. as a standard way of identifying the senders of e-mail messages suffered a blow last week when a group within the
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Antispam lawsuits and enforcement actions suggest that companies taking a wink-and-nudge approach to affiliates should be careful about how they lure paying customers. By Ryan Singel.
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Email threats are getting more and more sophisticated as spam, viruses, phishing, and spyware blend together. Learn how to thwart todays sophisticated blended threats.
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An invitation to chat by Webcam could come with malicious code.
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Researcher finds two flaws that under unusual circumstances could let a malicious program read private data or render a phone unusable.
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Today's blog post discusses methods with which a non-technical user can secure their own instant messaging conversations such that an attacker is unable to listen in (be they the government or a nosy neighbor sniffing the wireless network from next door).
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UPDATE: Campaign grows from distributed denial-of-service attack to Digg bumps.
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Blog: Popular add-ons could have their update process hijacked by man-in-the-middle attacks.
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Challenge/response e-mails accidentally marked as spam by AOL and EarthLink.
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Unpatched vulnerabilities may leave computers open to remote attacks.
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Some prompts and websites that download browser plug-ins are turning out to be fronts for malicious programing.