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Is online banking more secure on iOS than a desktop computer?
Does Apple's iOS provide a more secure environment for online commerce (banking or shopping) than Windows or Mac OS X? Since the only software that can run on iOS must be vetted by Apple, the ...
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How dangerous is a virus introduced to a malicious website in chrome?
I am using Google's Chrome browser under Linux (Ubuntu) 64 bit for web browsing.
If I a virus uses for example a leak in the flash player, the virus will get the privileges of the user who started ...
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How is it possible that a virus can infect the system if the browser is started with non-admin rights
If I open my web browser (for example firefox) in Windows 7 with activated UAC as normal user (non admin) a virus - which uses a security leak in my browser - will only gets privileges of the normal ...
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How hard it would be to infect a system with malware through a portable web browser
If I use a portable web browser on a USB device like
Google Chrome Portable how hard it would be to get infected by a malware/virus in the system to which the USB device is connected?
Google Chrome ...
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URL Shortening - How to verify if it is a non-malicous URL?
Again, I must mention that I have just started to learn about security. So, please bear with my newbie questions.
If I receive a shortened URL from somewhere, say in an my-email or in a social media ...
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When and Why does Chrome display malware detection warning?
Google Chrome contains malware detection feature. When user visits some site, browser may display warning that site contains malware.
What does it mean that site contains malware? Does it mean that ...
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From a technical standpoint, how does the zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability discovered in September 2012 work?
I'm looking for an answer that explains the issue from the prespective of a developer/engineer. What is exactly being exploited and why does it work?
Please note that I am not looking for ...
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Javascript Malware: How does it work, and how can it be mitigated?
I am wondering how malware gets served through Javascript. I've noticed a few illegitimate pop-ups while visiting some financial websites. I wonder how malware exploits work against the application ...
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Why do I get AV alerts when browsing a web page?
I'm using the latest version of Firefox and Windows is up to date. When I was browsing a webpage and clicked a link the browser displayed "connection has been reset" and AVAST poped-up saying "Alert!" ...
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How securely use Firefox Add-on to prevent steal data?
The videos (first and second) demonstrate how a Firefox extension can collect login information used to login to websites such as Facebook.
After installing this tool/maleware as Firefox Add-on, I ...
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how do you visit a link without risking your computer
I got a link from: http //61.19.247./~naowit/dustin.html (removed the last digits so you don't accidentally click it! (they were 192)), which was masked as a youtube.com link via email. Now I'm not ...
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Can one get infected through visiting a site with a PHP script on it and if yes, how?
I can imagine a clientside JavaScript that gets executed in a vulnerable browser to do some harm, but how can this be done with PHP?
Since it's serverside it shouldn't have access to the visitor's ...
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Any additional security with large blacklisting hosts file?
I run Windows with a pretty hefty c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts file obtained from http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm. I update this file as regularly as I remember and layer it with ...
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1answer
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How can I assess the trust worthiness of a browser add-on?
Having learned a bit more about what add-ons/extensions can do in Firefox, I want to minimize my risk and use some safer mechanism to download videos (FLV in particular) for later viewing.
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What are the security implications of people downloading addons, wrongly thinking that they are safe?
I recently learned about a plugin for Firefox called Fire Sheep, which was featured on the Security Now podcast. I downloaded F.S. and began examining it. To my surprise it includes C++ code that must ...
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Unknown malware, how to report it and whom to report it to?
I'm a professional Windows system administrator, but I've been caught off-guard (or maybe some malware writer has been very clever) and I caught some unknown malware on my home computer (Windows 7 x64 ...
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Firefox Desktop Shortcut Being Renamed
On my Vista PC the Firefox shortcut icon is being randomly renamed. The name changes to some variation of a recently visited URL. This unwanted action has survived several version updates. Of course I ...
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What abuses can an infected webpage do to me if I'm using Chrome and Flash is disabled
as a follow-up to this question Can you get virus just by visiting a website in chrome., I've read these pages:
http://www.straightsectalk.com/?p=47
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Can you get virus just by visiting a website in chrome
I've recently read Google Chrome: The End of Drive-By Downloads. Is it true to say that drive-by-downloads are history in Google Chrome?
So if I have a link (from a spam email) I can right-click >> ...
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Browser hijacked - how to fix and prevent?
For the second time in a month, my work PC has been infected with malware that is hijacking my Google search results in Firefox. A search for the URL hijacked searches end up at turns up nothing on ...
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Malicious Websites
Just wanted to get everyone's opinion on this. In Information Security, you get various alerts about particular machines on your network going to sites and/or IPs that have been flagged as ...
