 | In a blog post today, Mozilla said that two malicious Firefox Add-ons – Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader and all versions of Master Filer were found to contain Trojan code aimed at Windows users. These Add-ons were however rated as “Expimental Add-ons” and fortunately did not make it to the main Add-ons section… |
 | Last week, Google announced that they will stop the supporting Internet Explorer 6 in Google Apps. Now according to a Ars Technica report, Google is also ending support of the Internet Explorer 6 in GMail and Google Calendar as well later in 2010. Google did not reveal this last bit of news in the emails… |
 | In an attempt to make Chromium more secure, Google is planning to get security experts to give more attention on Chromium’s security by providing a $500 reward for reporting bugs. They said that some of the most interesting security bugs are reported by experts outside the Chromium Project and so, by providing this incentive Google… |
 | Nmap, arguably the best network scanning tools available today, got a new release – Nmap 5.20. This is the first stable Nmap release since Nmap 5.0, which was released in July 2009. The new release comes with a lot of new features; most significant among them being the addition of 342 new signatures and the… |
 | The news of the death of Stephen Gately, the star from the Irish pop band – Boyzone, is being used to spread virus (otherwise known as scareware). Using black hat SEO techniques, criminals have been successful in putting up fake websites which supposedly has informatio regarding the incident. This follows a recent trend of the… |
 | After the Hotmail password leak yesterday, today most of the major email service providers join Hotmail as passwords of Gmail, Yahoo! and AOL users were also leaked today. The BBC reported of a list of 20000 usernames and passwords combinations available at a site. There is no need to panic though. All that you have… |
 | Microsoft has finally released its much awaited ….ahem…. anti-virus, anti-spyware solution today. Codenamed “Morro” during its development stages, this piece of software has been in development for almost a year and now it is known as ” Security Essentials “. We earlier reported to you about the beta release of this software, and this time… |
 | As you must be knowing, some of the most popular websites and web services are having hiccups now a days. This time it was reddit.com. Its facing a XSS (cross site scripting) attack. Reddit confirmed in their blog that the attack was due to anomalies in their own code. Basically whats happening is all your… |
