Browser In Your Browser, Sock Puppets, Performance Killing Patches, & GIFShell – PSW #755
In the Security News: you liked the browser so much we put a browser in your browser, hackers are using sock puppets, the patch that kills performance, detect eavesdroppers, no more passwords, one-click account hijack thanks to JavaScript, the return of Shakata Ga Nai, GIFShell (or is it jifshell), Lexmark firmware confusion, and searching for a long lost copy of OS/2!
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- 3. Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras
- 4. US Indicts Iranians Who Hacked Power Company, Women’s Shelter
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- 6. Hackers now use ‘sock puppets’ for more realistic phishing attacks
- 7. Hackers steal Steam accounts in new Browser-in-the-Browser attacks