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Guardian UK Jobs site hacked, user data breached
Blog These include consulting a credit reference agency such as Equifax to "resolve the situation and prevent it happening again," paying CIFAS to place a fraud alert on your credit file and visiting the banksafeonline.org.uk for information.
[October 25, 2009, 0:12]
Open-source projects at risk from repository flaw
News The flaw in CVS, which is used more widely than Subversion, affects all versions of the software released before 19 May, according to an alert sent out by Esser. Groups developing the Gnome and KDE Linux desktops, the Apache Web server and large...
[May 20, 2004, 15:50]
Sasser risk 'not yet over'
News The technique is "rather obvious," he said, defending the decision to publicise the strategy in an alert. After Code Red struck Web servers almost three years ago, an unknown programmer modified the code to allow the worm to spread via network...
[May 7, 2004, 8:35]
Ankit Fadia - Be Aware and Alert
Talkback Hot Note: This article is posted by Kalpesh Sharma for Public Interest and National Interest, so that every concerned person can be aware and alert. Now he has started a course which runs in every reliance web world.
[December 20, 2006, 18:56]
ICQ 4.1 review
Reviews Another feature we liked sets an alert -- a flashing birthday cake -- next to a friend's name on your contact list on that birthday; simply click the cake to open a message window with a special birthday background and a greeting card option.
[August 31, 2004, 10:50]
Bugbear to set new virus record
News This disguises where the actual emails are coming from and makes it difficult to alert someone that their system is infected. On Monday, Bugbear-infected PCs sent out nearly 38,000 emails, according to the company's Web site.
[October 8, 2002, 7:45]
Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?
Blog Comment If you have a string you want to extract the first 3 characters of the second word on the 5ths line from and display it in an alert box, how many lines of code would you need to write in traditional languages?
[November 25, 2009, 21:05]
'Code Red' virus re-infection expected on 1 August
News The US-based computer security warning organisation Cert said in an alert today that widespread denial of service attacks will hit unpatched servers using versions of Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) software within 18 hours.
[July 27, 2001, 17:30]
Kaspersky scores virus alert own goal
News A Russian antivirus company apologised on Friday for an emailed virus alert that was infected with the very worm the message was supposedly designed to warn against. Some hackers got into our Web server and got the addresses of our subscribers...
[November 11, 2002, 9:24]
Europe first to get Visual J#.Net
News Apparently, the first time it was switched on in a branch, the application immediately launched an alert. Previously you had to choose between the rich Windows environment, and the very easy Web environment," said Gundotra.
[July 1, 2002, 15:10]
Apple flaw targeted by exploit code
News Attackers may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges," Symantec said in a security alert to customers that was updated on Thursday. The AAC file parsing code in iTunes versions prior to 6.0.5 contains an integer...
[June 30, 2006, 10:00]
PDF reader flaw fixed
News File and folder permissions for the applications could permit non-privileged users to change key program files on the Apple operating system, Adobe said in its security alert. Adobe recommends that people use the automatic update facility in its...
[July 13, 2006, 9:45]
Virus dresses up as a naked Jennifer Lopez
News Antivirus-software maker Panda Software issued an alert on Thursday after receiving about eight reports of the destructive A Lopez virus is part of a long-running gag on numerous Web sites and mailing lists devoted to tech humor.
[June 1, 2001, 8:56]
Bug alert firm sets new guidelines
News Many companies such as Red Hat are members of CERT and could get advisories through that organisation's alert system. The company faced loud complaints last April after it released news of a security hole in the popular open-source Web server...
[December 3, 2002, 8:43]
Companies look for truce in security flaw row
News Despite the concentration of security companies in the OIS, some researchers don't believe that the draft rules, in having them wait 30 days after a patch is released before publishing a bug alert, make for good security.
[June 5, 2003, 7:49]
Email worm attacks child porn
News Noped comes bundled with a list of government and police email addresses that it will send a random alert to if it discovers a match for one or more of the JPEG file names listed in the script. When launched, the Homepage attachment automatically...
[May 29, 2001, 16:18]
Microsoft besieged by zero-day attacks
News This issue can allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable computer," Symantec said in an alert sent to customers. The hole could be exploited by crafting a malicious file and providing a link to it on a Web site or in an email...
[September 28, 2006, 9:20]
Network administrators told to secure servers
News On Wednesday, Blumenthal posted an alert on the popular spam-l discussion list saying the information campaign was about to begin. Open proxies are similar -- they're often misconfigured Web servers -- and can permit spam to be sent anonymously.
[January 30, 2004, 14:05]
Teh Fluffy Kittez - 1 Forces Of Authoritarian Darkness - 0
Blog Within a couple of hours, this is spotted and the remedy applied: some bright sparks at YouTube correctly diagnose the problem, start fixing it and also alert their counterparts elsewhere on the Net. I felt just such a spark when reading the...
[March 2, 2008, 20:31]
Homeland Security urges Windows fix
News In a rare alert, the US Department of Homeland Security has urged Windows users to plug a potential worm hole in the Microsoft operating system. It is excellent that DHS sent out this alert, because I think a lot of people are vulnerable.
[August 11, 2006, 12:10]
