Tag archive: Secunia

Danish computer security firm Secunia offers a free utility called Secunia Personal Software Inspector, which can run through a user's PC and scan for secure and dead applications and provide access to security patches. To get an idea of whether Secunia PS was useful to folks, the firm collected data from new users of its free Secunia Personal Software Inspector for a period of seven days. What did it find? Of the roughly 20,000 users… Read More

“Danish security company Secunia posted an alert describing the vulnerability — which affects Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Konqueror — as a “moderately critical” problem. The vulnerability impacts every browser built atop the open-source Geko browser kernel — nearly all except IE — because of a flaw in handling International Domain Names (IDN). Hackers can register domain names with certain… Read More

“Tabbed browsing, one of the more popular features built into alternative Web browsers, contains a security flaw that puts users at risk of spoofing attacks, research firm Secunia warned onWednesday. Secunia released an advisory detailing the flaws, which affect users of Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Camino, Konqueror, Avant Browser and Maxthon (MyIE2).” This is very scary to see, especially since tabbed browsing is… Read More

Apple issued a patch for the “help” flaw on Friday, but the fix leaves the “disk” problem unpatched, experts said. “Mac users are as vulnerable now, as before the patch was released,” Niels Henrik Rasmussen, chief executive of security firm Secunia told us. Secunia and other security bodies, including the U.S. government, classified the bugs as serious because the problems are easy to exploit and working… Read More