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Protect yourself from Flash Player's clickjacking vulnerability

Flash settings

Adobe has announced that there is a known clickjacking vulnerability in the current Flash player. If you're looking to protect yourself, there are two possible remedies.

Adobe has a workaround posted on their web site. Visit the Flash player settings panel and click always deny on the global privacy settings.

Firefox users would do well to install the NoScript addon, which has updated clickjacking defenses. "ClearClick" protection was added in version 1.8.2, but is now enabled by default. It's designed to prevent user with UI elements that are not visible. In layman's terms, it should keep you from clicking on a button that you didn't know was there.

[via Hackademix]

Filed under: Internet, Social Software

Coming soon: month full o' MySpace bugs

Ever want to see MySpace crash and burn? Or, are you at least a little tired of the horrific design/coding/everything nightmare that is MySpace? A couple of hackers plan to introduce security vulnerabilities in MySpace next month, revealing one a day as part of the "Month of Bugs" tradition. However, Mondo Armando and Müstaschio, in a kind of satirical, cynical, and humorous fashion, will attempt to subvert both the popular social networking website and the "Month of Bugs" trend simultaneously. From their website, their reasons for this endeavor are as follows:
  • Myspace is important, in that there are a bazillion users and a kajillion dollars involved.
  • "Months of Bugs" are whiny, attention-seeking ploys for acceptance. Myspace's design use is to enable whiny, attention-seeking ploys for acceptance.
  • "Months of Bugs" are annoying, so rather than suffering through another, we figured it'd be better to just create our own where we could at least direct the content a little.
MySpace haters, hackers, coders, and everyone else in-between should look forward to this experiment. What will be the result of spreading word of the Emperor's many vulnerabilities? Only time will tell. Godspeed.

Filed under: Internet, Security, Windows, Macintosh, Linux

Firefox 1.5.0.5 security update, 8 'critical' vulnerabilities patched

Firefox 1.5.0.5 security update releasedMozilla has released a security update to Firefox, version 1.5.0.5. TechWeb is reporting that this update fixes 13 vulnerabilities, including 8 that have been deemed critical by Mozilla. For those keeping score: all 8 of these critical bugs are errors or vulnerabilities that have been found in JavaScript.

Firefox 1.5.x should automatically download this update, but users can still manually obtain a copy from Mozilla's site.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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