ArticleField.comInternet's Fastest Growing Free Content Article DirectoryMicrosoft recently mitigated a security flaw related to Bluetooth stack. The mitigated flaw was one among the 22 vulnerabilities fixed by the software giant in the recent Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has rated the Bluetooth stack vulnerability, which affects Windows Vista and Windows 7 as critical. All other versions of Windows operating system remain unaffected by […]
I finally got one of those “I’m stuck in London” emails. My friend Kate’s Gmail account was hacked, and everyone on her contact list received an email from a hacker posing as Kate: “Hi, Apologies, but I made a quick trip, to London,United Kingdom and got mugged, my bag, stolen from me with my passport […]
Once criminal hackers get a person’s username and email address, they can begin to launch a targeted spear phish scam. Scammers copy the design of each breached entities outgoing email campaign and blast the breached list with “account update” or other ruses. Gaming site Sega Pass was hacked. On the Sega Pass website it states, […]
Recently, Mozilla updated Firefox to version 5.01. The latest update addresses an issue in Mac OS X 10.7, which causes Firefox to crash. The bug in the upcoming Mac operating system causes Firefox to crash while using downloadable fonts. Mozilla has changed the font APIs to fix the issue. Firefox version 5.01 also resolves an […]
The office of the Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland recently issued a security alert warning people of a Short Message Service (SMS) scam campaign. The message appears to come from the office of the Data Protection Commissioner and urges people to call on the provided telephone number. The scam message attempts to create urgency by […]
