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W32/VBNA-X worm spreads quickly through networks and removable media

Nov

2012

SophosLabs researchers have noticed a significant increase in the spread of malware we call W32/VBNA-X (among other names).Several other vendors, including McAfee (W32/Autorun.worm.aaeb) and Symantec (W32.ChangeUp), have been alerting their customers as well. While the basic components of this malware have been around for some time, it has become considerably more aggressive in its latest […]

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Anatomy of a bug: latest Firefox ‘new tab’ feature thumbnails HTTPS pages

Jun

2012

About a week ago, popular IT news site The Register announced a security hole in Firefox. Under the headline Firefox ‘new tab’ feature exposes users’ secured info: Fix promised, El Reg decried the most recent Firefox release as “unlucky version 13”. The story ended up pretty widely reported, and Mozilla has publicly promised a fix. […]

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How to delete your Google Web History before the new privacy policy takes effect

Feb

2012

By now, everyone has probably heard about Google’s privacy policy update that is to go into effect March 1, 2012. The long and short of the change is that Google may combine information collected from one service and share it with other Google products. (Gmail, Youtube, Search, Google+, etc.) Google wants to treat you as […]

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