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  • Spammers use unicode trick to manipulate file names

    Windows executable appears to be Word document. An unicode trick that reverses the order of some characters has been used by spammers to disguise malicious attachments as harmless file types. Unicode enables the representation on computer screens of a very large and still growing number of alphabets, together with many special characters. Among this latter…

  • Microsoft releases new fix for DLL vulnerability

    Earlier workaround believed to be too complex for most users. A week after Microsoft released a fix for a DLL vulnerability that affected a large number of programs running on its operating systems, it has released a second fix for the same problem. DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries), which contain commonly used functions, are essential to…

  • QuickTime flaw could open Windows PCs to hackers

    Firefox users most vulnerable; Internet Explorer users should be wary too. Polish security researcher Krystian Kloskowski has published a proof-of-concept exploit for a vulnerability in Apple ‘s QuickTime media player. The exploit, which makes use of a vulnerability in the way the RTSP-protocol is handled by QuickTime , could give hackers access to PCs that…