Red Hat hit by security-update email scam
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Red Hat is warning users that an email purporting to be a security update may contain malicious code. The email - which began appearing last Friday - uses a security@redhat
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Proprietary chums meets open sourcers Red Hat added a peculiar name to its Exchange software store by picking up OS morphing code from Transitive.â¦
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Malware arrives in an e-mail message, launches denial of service attack.
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Security experts are warning about an e-mail making the rounds that tells users about a new Microsoft "security update" that turns out to be bogus.
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Software vendor mulls how to compensate Chinese comupter users effected by a buggy antivirus update last week.
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Accessing the beta version of Yahoo Mail on a PC with Symantec's updated antivirus software incorrectly causes alarm bells to go off.
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A phishing scam has been detected that doesn&#39;t require users to click on a link in order to jeopardise their personal data. Simply opening the email may be enough, according to Messagelabs.
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User calls help desk pilot fish with a pretty routine problem: Hes received an e-mail that says he needs to click on a link to update his security settings. But every time he does, nothing happens.
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Via this Secunia advisory posted today, there's information about the update the Fedora Linux group has made to the PHP package included in their distribution. According to the release:   This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions and by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).   The original advisory post has more details on what the update fixes as well as the link to download the RPM packages to update your system. You can either manually download them or use the "yum" system to handle things a bit more automatically.
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A company which makes software that infiltrates users&#39; computers and demands $30 to be removed has been targeted by US authorities.
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Exploit code targets a flaw that generated a government warning last week.
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Spammers have adopted a new standard for email authentication much faster than legitimate emailers, according to a study from security appliance firm CipherTrust published this week.
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An Australian software developer has been left fuming after the latest virus definition update from McAfee caused his package to be wrongly identified as a Trojan horse programme.
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Coming to an inbox near you A day after Adobe patched a serious security hole in its Reader and Acrobat programs, miscreants are flooding email inboxes with malware-tainted PDF files that try to remotely hijack vulnerable computers.â¦
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Ticking mail bomb threat overlooked The "contact us" feature on many websites is often insecure and makes it easy to launch denial of service attacks on corporate mail servers, according to UK-based security consultancy SecureTest.â¦
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Users urged to upgrade RealPlayer and Helix Player to repair critical security flaw.
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Rather Dented Users of the popular Trillian instant messaging client need to update their software following the discovery of a serious security bug.â¦