Vulnerabilities & Exploits

Researchers this week released proof-of-concept code for a number of cross-site scripting flaws on Facebook, but the social networking site said it closed the vulnerabilities within hours. The Rudd government has served an injustice on Internet users by prematurely cutting the previous government’s NetAlert family-side filter program and replacing it with an ‘unworkable’ plan for ISP-level net filters, according to security company Webroot.
Barracuda Networks is predicting that spam volumes will rise to more than 95 per cent of all email in 2009. A gap in security exits for applications that help enable collaboration among employees, such as intranet portals and content management systems, a recent study found. The recent security problems on the Apple Safari and Google Chrome web browsers have been described as 'shocking'.  

 

The automatic update features in many software applications are proving to be vulnerable to attack. Hackers are taking notice. You should, too. The anonymity and universal access of cyberspace makes cybercrime attractive and easy. With flaws in many new products, vendors should listen a bit more to the research community perhaps Consultancy firm, The Leading Edge called Proofpoint to restore its email when a Botnet attack took the company’s internet link down. Security experts give mixed reviews about Google’s inaugural web browser, Chrome.  

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