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Security 101: Attack Vectors Take Advantage of User Interaction

09

Feb

2012

Welcome back to Security 101. Our New Year’s recess is over, and it’s time to offer another lesson. So far we have discussed vulnerabilities and some types of low-interaction attack vectors. In this lesson we shall continue with attack vectors that require medium or high levels of user interaction to succeed.These attack vectors are more […]

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Search for Google Chrome leads to Compromised Chrome Plugin Forum

24

Jan

2012

This morning WebsenseR ThreatSeekerR Network alerted us that if a user enters the term “Download Chrome” in Google Search, the 36th result would result in potentially malicious content being downloaded to the user’s machine.I’ll briefly describe the attack vector in which the content is sent to the user.Web Search Search for “Download Chrome”: The 36th result leads to […]

Category Security Written by Websense 0 Comments

How to access Wikipedia during the blackout

18

Jan

2012

Wikipedia is blacked out because of a protest about SOPA. But what happens if you really, really need Wikipedia? The good news is that you can still access it on your smartphone, or by accessing the mobile site directly. You can also temporarily by disabling Javascript in your browser when visiting the site (specifically blocking […]

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