Firefox Plug-In Updated To Fight Clickjacking Attacks

October 14, 2008

Mozilla is doing its part in the battle against clickjacking. The open-source company is offering an updated plug-in for the Firefox browser that blocks what security researchers call one of the most dangerous problems on the Web.

Clickjacking occurs when a person browsing a Web site clicks on an invisible link that leads them to a malicious site without their knowledge. Some never realize it even happened. A design feature in HTML that lets Web sites embed content from other sites makes it possible, which means nearly everybody is vulnerable.

The Firefox add-on, NoScript, is a well-known security plug-in. It is used to block all sorts of content types within Web pages. It is not a security scanner in the sense that it does not scan content with any form of signature database to look for specific known threats. Rather, it is a tool that enables you to block certain types of content. An update to NoScript includes a feature dubbed ClearClick to combat clickjacking. Read more

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Hackers using fake YouTube pages to attack computers

October 14, 2008

Computer security specialists warn that hackers are using fake YouTube pages to trick people into opening their machines to diabolical software. A deceptive YouTube attack evolving as it spreads on the Internet is part of a growing trend of hackers to prowl popular online social networking communities in which people trustingly share web links and mini-programs.

“We are seeing tools like this not just for YouTube, but for MySpace, Facebook, America Online instant messaging …,” Trend Micro software threat research manager Jamz Yaneza told AFP on Thursday. “All the various social networking sites have been hit with some page or another.”

Hackers using the YouTube attack send people links to what are said to be must-see snippets at the Google-owned video-sharing website. The links, instead, connect to convincingly realistic replicas of YouTube pages and tell people that a software update is needed to view a requested video. Read more

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Sony Says PS3 Price Will Remain Firm for Holidays

October 14, 2008

The Tokyo Game Show is, to put it mildly, a noisy event as game manufacturers crank up the volume on their latest racing or military combat products. But the loudest sound may have come from Kazuo Hirai, president and group chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment, who told the Financial Times that Sony has no plans to cut prices on its gaming consoles for the holiday season.

“The answer is yes, if you’re asking, ‘Are these the prices we’re going with this Christmas?’” Hirai told the Financial Times. “When you really compare apples to apples, then I think we have a very good value proposition.” Read more

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Analog’s twilight: Slowly, digital trumps physical

October 14, 2008

Sometimes, in the decades after he came home from World War II, it seemed as if the movie camera was surgically attached to Christoffel Teeuwissen’s hand. He carried it everywhere, trained it on everything. When they widened the street in front of his house in Florida, there he was. When a septic tank was installed in West Virginia, there he was. High school football games, construction sites, the building of a swimming pool — there he was, camera in hand.

Film ebbed into video, and he kept recording. When the VCR arrived on the scene, history programs joined the collection, as did episodes of “The Lawrence Welk Show” and TV biographies of Glenn Miller. Then, in 2005, Christoffel Teeuwissen died at 88. And when Jon Teeuwissen and his two sisters began going through their parents’ ranch house, another story unfolded. Read more

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