The Kama Sutra may help you score points in the bedroom, but a new PowerPoint file on the ancient guide to sex will only raise your chances of scoring something else: a rendezvous with computer hackers. According to the security research firm Sophos , an …
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The Jerusalem Post reports that up to 1,000 centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear facility were disabled by the computer worm known as Stuxnet … he discovered that the virus caused the engines in Iran’s IR-1 centrifuges to increase and decrease their speed …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Chrome Browser Sandboxes Flash To Protect Against Malware — One of the big issues with Flash is that it introduces all sorts of security vulnerabilities, especially if you don’t have the latest security patches and updates. Google has chosen to embrace Flash both in its Chrome browser and Android OS …
Wayne Huang / Armorize Blog:
“HDD Plus” malware spread through major ad networks, using malvertising and drive-by download — (Credits: Wayne Huang, Caleb Sima, Chris Hsiao, NightCola Lin, Fyodor Yarochkin) — Over the past few days, we saw the quick spread of HDD Plus—a malware that (somehow) gets installed on victim computers …