Tag: websense
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Windows Error Reporting used to discover new attacks
No excuse for sending error reports in cleartext. All happy programs are the same. But each unhappy program crashes in its own way. In a report published yesterday, security firm Websense has shown how Windows Error Reporting can be used to detect hitherto unknown attacks. Windows Error Reporting was introduced by Microsoft with Windows XP…
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Gmail CAPTCHA cracked
Twenty per cent success rate sufficient to create thousands of spam accounts. Gmail has become the latest free webmail service to have its CAPTCHAs cracked by spammers. Following the recent news of the Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Mail CAPTCHAs having been cracked, the news of Gmail ‘s CAPTCHA being surpassed will come as little…
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Websense snaps up SurfControl
$400m for British web-filtering company. US firm Websense has sealed a $400m cash deal to acquire British web-filtering company SurfControl . The 700-pence-per-share price paid by Websense – 63% more than SurfControl ‘s share price at the time of announcing it was looking for a buyer – has prompted speculation that Websense may not have…