Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Thursday, April 24th, 2008

WOT, Web of Trust, is using the power of crowds to build a reputation system for websites to warns the user about risky websites that try to scam visitors, deliver malware, or indulge in spamming activities. WOT provides a browser plugin for both FireFox and Internet Explorer using which the WOT community members provide ratings [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Radware’s vulnerability research team has discovered a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in the iPhone’s web browser, Safari 1.1.4. The DoS, once triggered, results in crashing the Safari browser and can even crash the entire iPhone device. As per the research, if an iPhone user opens any HTML page which contains Javascript that can manifest [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Hackers, spammers and phishing scam creators are loving their new destinations. As per the new report on cyber security by Symantec, the users of social networks and search engines are more likely to face attacks of viruses, malicious codes and phishing scams. Alfred Huger, vice president of engineering at Symantec, says: The malicious attacks – [...]