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Unpatched WordPress installations rife with malware

06

Jul

2011

Yesterday the WordPress team gifted writers with the release of version 3.2 of the open source blogging platform. While their focus was rightly on all of the cool new features and enhancements their community will enjoy, I naturally wanted to focus on the changes that may have an impact on security. The biggest announcement was […]

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Improving Passwords

21

Jun

2011

Troy Hunt, a Microsoft MVP, has done some terrific analysis of the passwords people use. Unfortunately, what has made this possible is the recent trend in hacktivism whereby it is common for hackivists to post the spoils of their attacks online to generate publicity and shame the company being attacked. While this has been bad […]

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Microsoft study asserts social engineering more common than exploitation

20

May

2011

Earlier this week Microsoft posted a blog entry showing statistics from their SmartScreen technology built into Internet Explorer (IE) 7, 8 and 9. Their conclusions? One in every 14 downloads is malicious (of the malicious files that Microsoft is aware of) and this represents between two and five million malware attacks per day against IE […]

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