Truncated dialogs may be used to trick users

When an important dialog is being displayed, such as a download dialog, the entire dialog should be visible, so that the user can clearly see what the dialog's buttons will do. In some cases, specific user interactions can cause Opera not to enforce this correctly, allowing the window to become...

A combination of clicks and key presses can lead to cross site scripting or code execution – Opera Security Advisories

When a user double clicks on a page, they may expect the two clicks to target the same object. If a page uses the first click to open a pop-up window in a predictable location, the second click may focus parts of the new window, such as its address field. If the page can then convince the user to...

Digital Affluence Is Making Us Less Secure

Our digital affluence is making us insecure, writes Dan Geer, the CISO at In-Q-Tel. Like addled consumers trying to choose from among 20 different types of toothpaste in the supermarket aisle, IT is paralyzed by an overabundance of security products, unable to decide which products are worth the...

Cyber Criminal Underground: The Comics Edition

The criminal underworld is an insular community shrouded in secrecy. That’s helped lend an air of mystique to cyber crime. See also: Bruce Willis in “Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard.”. But it turns out that, like so much else, real life cyber crime is… well… pretty dull. How dull? Comic artist...

Attack Combines Browser History & Social Net Groups

A group of researchers have discovered a simple way to reveal the identity of a user based on his interactions with social networks. The ‘deanonymization’ attack uses social network groups as well as some traditional browser history-stealing tactics to narrow down and find the user behind the...

Update Protections against Recent Malware Threats (3-Jul-08)

Malware is a software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent. It is a general name for a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying programs like Viruses, worms, Adware, Trojans, and spyware that exploit unprotected clients, using network...

NTFS and PGP interact to expose EFS encrypted data

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NTFS and PGP interact to expose EFS encrypted data c 2002 Ry Jones, Airgap Networks. Summary: NTFS, a feature of Windows XP, supports an "encrypted" attribute. PGP 7.0.3 Freeware, a product of Network Associates, supports wiping files as they are...

SECURITY.NNOV: file locking and security

Hello bugtraq, Topic : File locking and security Author : 3APA3A [email protected] Affected software : Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and may be another systems Exploitable : Yes Remotely exploitable : No Category : Design flow Background: Application can lock the file after file description ...

CVE-2000-1079

Affected software/hardware: Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT, and 2000. Vulnerability: Interaction between the CIFS Browser Protocol and NetBIOS allows remote modification of dynamic NetBIOS name cache entries via a spoofed Browse Frame Request carried in a unicast or UDP broadcast datagram. Impact: ...