The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center represents some of the largest banks in the United States of America. They have issued a report that recommends to commercial banking customers to take rigorous steps in securing online bank accounts. The report recommends to “carry out all online banking activity from a standalone, hardened, and [...]
While email attachments are a popular and convenient way to send documents, they are also a common source of viruses. Use caution when opening attachments, even if they appear to have been sent by someone you know. Why can email attachments be dangerous? Some of the characteristics that make email attachments convenient and popular are [...]
Over the past several days, denial of service attacks have been launched at Twitter and Facebook. Twitter was shutdown for a couple hours. Facebook suffered from a slowdown. Authorities believe the attacks attempted to silence a user from Russia. “It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice [...]
US-Cert — ActiveX controls built with Microsoft ATL fail to properly handle initialization data Overview ActiveX controls that are built using a Microsoft ATL template may fail to properly handle initialization data, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. I. Description Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL) is [...]
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