Security

“Hole 196″ was recently discovered at AirTight Networks, and endangers the strongest form of Wi-Fi encryption and authentication standard currently available. The name refers to the page of the IEEE802.11 Standard (Revision, 2007) where the vulnerability is found. It makes it possible for someone to decrypt private data and inject malicious “traffic” into the network, [...]

CERT Alert TA10-159A Adobe Flash, Reader, and Acrobat Vulnerability Update! Security update for Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR released. Adobe Flash Player v.10.1 released 06.10.10 to plug the vulnerability listed below. Adobe AIR 2.0.2 released 06.10.10 Excerpt below: Original release date: June 08, 2010 Last updated June 08, 2010 Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Adobe [...]

PremierOpinion states very clearly that “The information which is monitored and collected includes internet usage information, basic demographic information, certain hardware, software, computer configuration and application usage information about the computer on which you install PremierOpinion.” Therefore, it must be able to look through your computer files, identify who you are, monitor your application usage, [...]

I immediately posted info from the Mac Security Blog regarding the shareware applications that were reported as installing spyware onto Macs. I have no idea if this is a real threat or is something Intego came up with to sell more software. I suspect that the time of the Mac’s freedom from virus and spyware [...]