Articles Archive for September 2008
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Learn how to protect yourself online while mobile banking.
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Proof of Concept: Google Chrome 0.2.149.27 on Windows XP SP2 (Open Calculator) http://security.bkis.vn/Proof-Of-Concept/PoC-XPSP2.html With other Windows non-XP SP2: http://security.bkis.vn/Proof-Of-Concept/PoC-Crash.html Details: · Type of Issue : Buffer Overflow. · Affected Software : Google Chrome 0.2.149.27. · Exploitation Environment : Google Chrome on Windows XP SP2. · Impact: Remote code execution. · Rating : Critical. · Description : …
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Attackers can use social-engineering or other techniques to trick an unsuspecting user into downloading a malicious file… Read more >>>
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Did you know that Bill Gates was arrested? In 1977, in Albuquerque Bill Gates was arrested for running a stop sign and driving without a license. Gates had a hard time sticking to driving laws. He was arrested for speeding and driving without a license i 1975 and in 1989, he was arrested for suspicion of driving drunk.
Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft Corporation.
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The Philippine Exchange Rates for 2008 (January to August)
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Data from the National Statistics Office (NSO) shows that August inflation was at 12.5 percent, up from the revised 12.3 percent hike in July. Inflation from January to August is now at 8.8 percent. This shows an inflation rate close to a 17-year high for the Philippines.
According to the NSO, commodities recorded higher inflation except those under food, beverage and tobacco.
Food inflation was at 18.1 percent in August compared to 18.6 percent in July. Inflation of rice is down to 45.1 percent compared to 50 percent in July. The …
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clamav: Crash with crafted chm, CVE-2008-1389
References
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1389 http://int21.de/cve/CVE-2008-1389-clamav-chd.html http://www.int21.de/cve/cve-2008-1389-samples.tar.bz2 https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1089
Description
A fuzzing test showed weakness in the chm parser of clamav, which can possibly be exploited. The clamav team has disabled the chm module in older versions though freshclam updates and has released 0.94 with a fixed parser.
The clamav team has not mentioned this issue in the release notes of 0.94, which is very bad security …
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