Dragan on Security

The United States and South Korea top the list of countries that hosted phishing sites in October, according to data from PhishTank, an open database tracking trends in e-mail fraud attacks.

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One more new zero-day exploit for Microsoft systems has appeared, capable of compromising fully patched IE 6/7 systems when a user visits a malicious website.

Microsoft has issued an advisory on the ActiveX vulnerability and exploit (see it here), first discovered by Secunia and labeled as “extremely critical” (here).

It’s been more than 20 years since quantum cryptography systems have been developed, taking over communication security from classical cryptography systems–the kind that used extremely difficult mathematical equations. Now, however, scientists Jacob Scheuer and Amnon Yariv have designed a new kind of classical key distribution system using ultra-long lasers that overcomes the practical challenges faced by quantum systems with its realistic simplicity and symmetry.

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This is awfull!

Hackers entered a Web page into the German edition of Wikipedia that claimed there was a new variant of the Blaster virus floating around and provided a link to a download to remove the virus.
The problem was, the supposed virus remover was the virus.

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