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May roundup – "90 Second News"

by Paul Ducklin on May 25, 2010 | Leave a comment
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Last month I did my 90 Second News roundup in the week of Patch Tuesday. This month I'm a bit late, for which I apologise, but I was away at the AusCERT conference, setting cryptogram puzzles and dodging virus-infected USB Read more…

Khobe "vulnerability" – no earth shaker

by Paul Ducklin on May 11, 2010 | Leave a comment
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The security panic of the week is the widely-reported story of a "vulnerability" called Khobe. One news headline goes so far as to announce that this "new attack bypasses virtually all AV protection". I disagree. The sample "attack", which claims Read more…

KHOBE 'vulnerability': is this game over for security software?

by Graham Cluley on May 11, 2010 | Comments Off
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The last couple of days there have been a lot of headlines in the security press about a report by a firm called Matousec, which claimed that "today's most popular security solutions simply do not work." The attack method, dubbed Read more…