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Google makes SSL Search default in Chrome

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Google is enhancing the security for Search in Chrome by sending the searches from address bar over SSL for not-signed in users where till yesterday this encryption being offered to signed-in users only, now Google has turned on SSL protection

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News

Ditch Java for your Sake, Another Zero-day Vulnerability Found in Java

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Java is not safe to use right now, you’ve been warned to immediately disable Java or even better uninstall it from your Computer as new zero-day vulnerability has been discovered which being exploited in the wild. Two hackers who maintain

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Firefox

Mozilla adds Malicious Codec add-ons to Blocklist

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Mozilla now blocklisting malicious add-ons aggressively, till now you may’ve heard news about Firefox developer blocklisting Java, Silverlight and other plugins because of vulnerabilities, now they’ve added some Codec add-ons available with different names such as Codec, Codec-C and Codec-M

Posted in: Firefox, News, security
Freeware

RKill does more than killing Malicious Processes

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

RKill, portable tool developed by BleepingComputer.com site to terminate malicious processes on infected systems helps users to scan their systems for infections using antivirus software and further they can able to remove threats if any found. We’ve reviewed this tool

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News

VLC 2.0.6 to Address Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in ASF Demuxer Plugin

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

VLC Player 2.0.5 and earlier versions are affected with a critical vulnerability, to address this Videolan is likely to release 2.0.6 version any time soon. If you’re using VLC media Player 2.0.5 and earlier versions you’re advised not to open

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News

Web of Trust Browser add-on reaches 60 Million Downloads

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Web of Trust which is available as an add-on for Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer browsers shows safety ratings for websites and links in search results has passed 60 million downloads and last year by this time

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