Cyber Times

Mozilla fixes 5 critical security vulnerabilities in FireFox

Recently Mozilla has released Firefox 14 and in doing so it has patched five critical security vulnerabilities and added support for HTTPS when searching over the internet via Google. The Major Security vulnerabilities on which mozila has worked are as follows.
The first critical bug fixed was a problem with Javascript: URLS. Firefox’s Javascript engine allows add-ons to execute scripts  in a sandbox. In some cases, Javascript: URLs are executed without sufficient context which can allow those scripts to escape from the sandbox and execute arbitrary code.

Internet shutdown: McAfee's free tool to help users

KOLKATA: McAfee has just released a free tool to help consumers who may be infected by the 'DNSChanger' Trojan to stay connected after servers are shut down by the FBI on July 9.
The new McAfee tool, helps users easily identify whether they have been affected by themalware and offers a free solution if they have been infected. Domain Name System, or DNS, converts user-friendly website names into the internet protocol (IP) addresses that computers use to talk to each other.

NVIDIA Developer Forums Hacked

Nvidia shut down its Developer Zone online forum, 15 July 2012 after hackers gained access to members' account details. A statement Nvidia posted on the forum reads, "Nvidia suspended operations today of the Nvidia Developer Zone. We did this in response to attacks on the site by unauthorised third parties who may have gained access to hashed passwords."

Hacker wanted by FBI held in India For Carding Crimes

Nikhil Kolbekar, aka HellsAngel, was arrested on July 11 in Mumbai, India. Eric Bogle, known as Swat Runs Train, and Justin Mills, or xTGxKAKAROT, were taken into custody in Canada, respectively Colorado, US. HellsAngel and Bogle is suspected of selling complete credit card details, including names, addresses, social security numbers, birth dates, and bank account information. He also sold remote desktop protocol (RDP) access data that could be utilized to breach computers in countries such as Turkey, India, Czech Republic, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and others.

Global IT touch to spend trillions in 2012

NEW DELHI: Global IT spending is expected to grow by 3 per cent to $3.6 trillion in 2012 on the back of growth in segments like cloud computing, telecom and consulting services, research firm Gartner said today. 

This is slightly higher than Gartner's projection of 2.5 per cent growth in the last quarter. 

"While the challenges facing global economic growth persist -- the eurozone crisis, weaker US recovery, a slowdown in China -- the outlook has at least stabilised," Gartner Research Vice-President Richard Gordon said in a statement. 

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