Tag Archives: online security

30,000 Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and other email accounts hit by phishing attack

Over 30,000 email accounts including Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL and other web mail services have been compromised by phishing attacks recently. Yesterday Neowin reported that around 10,000 Hotmail accounts were compromised due to phishing attacks, the details of these account … Continue reading

Microsoft Security Essentials: Download Free AntiVirus Software

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free antivirus program for Windows and is the successor of Windows Live OneCare. Microsoft released the beta of the program in June this year, and the final version is released today, it is rather quick. … Continue reading

Critical JavaScript Vulnerability found in Firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5 release came with a new JavaScript engine Tracemonkey for faster rendering of the JavaScript pages. But the release also has a critical vulnerability that lies in Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler. Mozilla is working on a fix to patch … Continue reading

Microsoft Security Essentials is available, download now

Microsoft Security Essentials, a free security software from Microsoft is available for download from today. This is a beta release of the software and the download is capped at 75,000, Microsoft may increase the download limit based on the demand, … Continue reading

Microsoft Security Essentials: Free Anti-Virus Software from Microsoft

Microsoft used to offer a Anti-Virus suite called OneCare that got discontinued due to lack of interest, and then Microsoft announced that it will offer a free solution code named “Morro” for security in November 2008. Looks like finally Morro … Continue reading

Internet Explorer Security Update Available

Microsoft officially released a security update for Internet Explorer which addresses the security flaw i wrote about yesterday. Usually Microsoft sends security patches once in a month via windows update, but this time due to the critical security but they … Continue reading

Internet Explorer users shift to other browsers

Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are advised to shift to other browsers due to a serious security flaw in IE according to Gaurdian. The security flaw was spotted last week when hackers started attacking IE 7 users. Other versions of … Continue reading

Update from Gmail team on security

Gmail team has responded to Gmail security problems reported at makeuseof.com and elsewhere, apparently Google has done some security checks and found no evidence of vulnerability in Gmail.

Security Flaw in Google Chrome Browser

Google Chrome was released yesterday with some useful features and i was excited with its features, but with in few hours a security researcher Aviv Raff discovered that Google Chrome is vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw. This vulnerability could expose Windows … Continue reading

Beware with Twitter Links, Malware Arrived on Twitter

Twitter links are mostly in short URL format and you never know what you are clicking until you see the opened site. It is always better to click links from only trusted contacts. Kaspersky folks are reporting that malware is … Continue reading