A hacker has compromised the personal information and identification of as many as 32,000 users whose details were stored on computers at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia. The computer system which was compromised was that holding all of the information associated with university identification cards, including names, photos, and…

In addition to the critical fix for the Help flaw which implicated Active X, and which Aunty posted about here, Microsoft today announced two additional security patches for Windows users. The first one involves both a cursor and icon handling vulnerability, along with a Windows kernal vulnerability, and affects a…

Not a moment too soon, Microsoft has announced a fix for that pesky “help flaw” involving ActiveX which Aunty first reported on here and again here just yesterday. Making this flaw even more devestating than some others is the fact that it affects so many flavours of Windows, including version…

Security company Secunia, Inc. has raised the security threat warning for recently revealed Internet Explorer 6 security flaws to “extremely critical”, their highest threat level. This is the result of yet another “security” site publishing yet another set of instructions for how to exploit the security hole (what’s up with…

AuditMyPC.com is a website which offers a host of free services designed to help you to secure your PC. Using readily available diagnostic tools and your Internet connection, the AuditMyPC.com site will tell you exactly what security holes you have open, Windows patches which you are missing, spyware which is…

It seems that online baddies are again using a flaw in the Windows help system to help themselves – to access to your computer system. As reported by Aunty last week, a flaw in the help system for certain releases of Windows, along with instructions on how to exploit it,…

Many of you have heard Aunty pile accolades on anti-spam program Cloudmark for their unique and highly effective way of stopping spam for their users: they have a network of several dozens of thousands of “reporters”, and when a certain number of them all report back to the Cloudmark mothership…

Aunty had no idea that there was such a distinction to finding the last Windows security hole of the year! But that is the only thing which can explain this last minute rush to post newly discovered flaws in the eleventh hour of the holiday season. Barely ten hours ago,…

Two new wide-spread and far-reaching security flaws have been identified in Windows. And not content to just identify the flaws, the Chinese “security” (and Aunty uses the term advisedly) firm, VenusTech, has also posted the code necessary to exploit the flaws. That story was picked up and posted by the…

Information Security Magazine, following extensive review, has published its list of the top security products for 2004. Evaluating products in a baker’s dozen of categories, and with a first, second, and third place in each (gold, silver, and bronze, respectively), this is one extensive and thorough cross-product comparison! Aunty particularly…

You may recall that last week Aunty reported that an advanced computer class at Chicago University had found 44 security holes in Unix. Well, its kissing cousin, Linux, the people who brought you that adorable penguin, Tux, is more secure, even unpatched, than are other computer systems, and specifically Windows,…

When Aunty reported on the five Windows security updates earlier this week, you didn’t actually think that it would be the last update for the week, did you? Oh no. Say “hello” to bouncing baby update #6 for the week. This fine young specimen is an update for Windows XP…

Professor D.J. Bernstein of the University of Illinois at Chicago has notified the Unix security community that his students have found no fewer than forty four security vulnerabilities in Unix. Bernstein gave the students for his MCS Computer Science (Unix) course the assignment to find ten previously undiscovered security holes…

As Aunty promised, here is the rundown on the five… count ’em… five security updates which Microsoft just released for Windows users and administrators: 1. Vulnerability in WordPad According to the Microsoft site, the vulnerabilty in WordPad allows an attacker to “take complete control of the affected system”. Ouch. There…

We’ve talked some about cookies (the kind which are saved on your computer, not the kind which you eat, although look at the bottom of this post for a great cookies-that-you-eat recipe!) Some of the most frequently asked questions which we get regarding cookies are “how can I find out…