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[http://www.pcmag.com] Reviews News & Opinions Downloads Business Daily Deals Login Register Subscribe Top Categories See all » Trending Tags See all » Follow More Blogs AppScout 'Lord of the Rings: Legends' Begins Its Quest on iOS, Android Forward Thinking Microsoft at Build: 10 Spoken and Unspoken Messages Will Windows 8 Bring Full-Screen Scareware? Sep 15, 2011 2:50 PM EST Comments By Larry Seltzer The buttons and address bars and other surrounding structures are now considered extraneous, but they served an important security purpose for web browsers. Read More » Categories: Security Software, Top Threat, Malware, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, E-Commerce, Internet Explorer, Internet Crime Tags: rogue, scareware, metro Apple Blocks DigiNotar Certs on Mac; When on iOS? Sep 10, 2011 1:57 PM EST Comments By Larry Seltzer Security Update 2011-005 changes the Mac OS X Certificate Trust Policy to revoke trust of DigiNotar. No updates for iPhones and iPads yet. Read More » Categories: Apple, Top Threat, Identity, E-Commerce, Mobile Security, Software Patches Tags: osx, certificate Adobe Removes DigiNotar From Trusted PDF CA List Sep 09, 2011 4:18 PM EST Comments By Larry Seltzer Acrobat vendor is the latest to protect their users from the scandal-plagued Dutch certificate authority. Read More » Categories: Security Software, Top Threat, Vulnerabilities, Identity, E-Commerce, Software Patches, Adobe Tags: identity, certificate, trust, aatl Microsoft Updates Windows To Block Rogue Certificates Sep 06, 2011 6:09 PM EST Comments By Larry Seltzer 5 DigiNotar root certificates are added to the Windows "Untrusted Publishers" collection Read More » Categories: Security Software, Top Threat, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Hacking, Identity, E-Commerce, Software Patches, Phish, Servers Tags: ssl, tls, certificate SSL Certificate Scandal Exposes Bug in Mac OS X Sep 01, 2011 4:42 PM EST Comments By Larry Seltzer When a user marks a certificate as untrusted in Keychain and the cert is EV-SSL, Keychain ignores the user setting and honors the certificate. Read More » Categories: Apple, Google, Security Software, Hacking, Identity, E-Commerce, Firefox, Internet Crime, DNS, Servers Tags: firefox, ssl, ev-ssl, https, keychain Firefox and Other Mozilla Apps Rev to Blacklist Hacked CA Aug 31, 2011 1:30 PM EST Comments By Larry Seltzer New versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey remove a root certificate that was compromised to create rogue certificates. Read More » Categories: Apple, Google, Linux/Unix, Security Software, Top Threat, Vulnerabilities, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, E-Mail, Hacking, Identity, E-Commerce, Mobile Security, Software Patches, Firefox, Internet Crime, DNS, Networking, Phish, Servers Tags: firefox, mozilla, hack Fraudulent *.google.com Certificate in Wild Aug 29, 2011 11:35 PM EST Comments By Larry Seltzer A Dutch certificate authority issued a wildcard certificate for google.com several weeks ago. It has been revoked, but it may be safer to untrust the CA. Read More » Categories: Google, Security Software, Top Threat, Identity, E-Commerce, Firefox, Internet Crime, DNS, Servers Tags: certificate, DigiNotar, wildcard Facebook Publishes A Guide to Facebook Security Aug 22, 2011 1:26 PM EST Comments By Larry Seltzer Only 'friend' people you know; use good passwords; log out when not using Facebook. These and other basic, good rules to follow are collected in a new document for mainstream Facebook users. Read More » Categories: Top Threat, Hacking, Identity, E-Commerce, Social Media, Internet Crime, Phish Tags: scam, password, phish, social, friend Firefox 6 Fixes Security Flaws Aug 16, 2011 10:25 PM EST Comments By Larry Seltzer With the release of 6.0, version 5 is no longer supported for security updates. Version 3.6.20 keeps the 3.x generation alive a bit longer. Read More » Categories: Top Threat, Vulnerabilities, E-Commerce, Software Patches, Firefox Tags: firefox, mozilla, vulnerability Spam Continues to Decline Aug 16, 2011 11:37 AM EST Comments By Larry Seltzer No other way to put it: Spammers just aren't sending out as much spam. What can this mean other than that it's not worth it to them? Read More » Categories: Security Software, E-Mail, E-Commerce, Internet Crime, DNS, Phish, Spam Tags: symantec, forefront, spam. spamcop New Ways to Force Browsers to be Safe Aug 15, 2011 11:59 AM EST Comments By Larry Seltzer It's finally sinking in among major web sites that they need to use HTTPS more. (In fact, they should use it for all pages all the time.) Two new developments help, one on the web server side and one for the client. Read More » Categories: Google, Privacy, Security Software, Top Threat, Hacking, Identity, E-Commerce, Social Media, Firefox, Phish, Servers, Wireless Tags: firefox, ssl, tls, hsts, HTTPS Everywhere Millions of e-commerce Sites Hacked to Serve Malware Aug 08, 2011 4:15 PM EST Comments By Larry Seltzer Vulnerabilities in an open source e-commerce system are exploited to serve browser exploits. Read More » Categories: Linux/Unix, Security Software, Top Threat, Vulnerabilities, Malware, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Hacking, E-Commerce, Software Patches, Internet Explorer, Internet Crime, Adobe, Servers Tags: IE, pdf, java, MySQL, php, mdac, Armorize, oscommerce, ukraine Banking Malware Criminals Move to the Cloud Aug 01, 2011 4:19 PM EST Comments By Larry Seltzer Automated signups make anonymous use of the service easy. This makes it easy for criminals to trade on the good name and reputation of Amazon. Read More » Categories: Security Software, Top Threat, Malware, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Hacking, Identity, E-Commerce, Internet Crime, Servers Tags: trojan, malware, bank, spyeye, cloud, kaspersky, s3 Apple Plugs Holes in iOS, iWork Jul 25, 2011 11:46 PM EST Comments By Larry Seltzer An SSL certificate-handling error on iOS could allow man-in-the-middle attacks. 3 iWork errors handling Microsoft Office documents could take result in the machine being taken over. Read More » Categories: Apple, Privacy, Top Threat, Vulnerabilities, E-Commerce, Mobile Security, Office, Software Patches Tags: iPhone, iPad, iOS, iPod, iWork, mitm, ssl, x509 Is 2011 Finally the Actual Year of Mobile Malware? Jul 19, 2011 1:04 PM EST Comments By Larry Seltzer Android malware authors are getting clever about their installer design in order to make it easier to install and update their code. 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