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Mark Joseph Edwards is a senior contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and writes the weekly email newsletter Security UPDATE (http://www.windowsitpro.com/email). He is a network engineer and the author of Internet Security with Windows NT (29th Street Press).
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 Blog: http://www.winnetmag.com/securitymatters

Discover what Windows security expert Mark Edwards thinks about today's hot security issues and join in on the discussion in the ongoing Security Matters blog.

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September 9, 2009  
Microsoft Releases 5 Critical Patches
Microsoft unleashed a series of critical security patches during its September software update cycle.
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September 9, 2009  
Wordpress 2.8.4 Fixes A Big Security Hole
Time to upgrade your Wordpress sites. A vulnerability in versions prior to 2.8.4 could let the bad guys reset passwords. And there's a nasty worm infiltrating sites based on an older vulnerability in the code.
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August 13, 2009  
How To Help Secure HTTP Data Without SSL
If you don't have SSL available to transmit data via HTTP you can still help protect that data during transit using a little jQuery magic.
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August 12, 2009  
SecureTweets for Twitter
Since Twitter is so hugely popular it makes sense that someone would create a tool to help protect users from malicious URLs within the posts at the site.
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August 12, 2009  
Sometimes The Cookie Doesn't Crumble
Ever heard of Flash cookies? They're often used to track your activity. And sometimes even if you delete them they reappear.
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July 23, 2009  
Making Data "Vanish" Automatically
University of Washington researchers have a created a way to automate encryption key expiration, which means data can become inaccessible over a given period of time.
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July 23, 2009  
Chrome OS - Who Would've Guessed?
By now you've heard the news that Google will eventually release an operating system called Chrome OS. There's no big surprise there. But the future of desktops might become surprising.
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July 13, 2009  
Firefox's Future Content Security Policy
It appears that Firefox will gain some much-needed Content Security Policy (CSP) that will help defend against XSS attacks, Clickjacking, and packet sniffing.
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July 8, 2009  
SANS Reports Internet Explorer 0-Day Exploit
SANS reports (via CSIS in Denmark) that a new 0-day exploit against Microsoft DirectShow is loose on the net.
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July 8, 2009  
Kon-Boot Lets You Bypass Logon for Windows and Linux
Kon-Boot looks like a very interesting tool since it can get you into a system without having to logon first.
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July 8, 2009  
Adios Milw0rm
It looks like the popular milw0rm site has gone offline - possibly never to return.
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July 1, 2009  
Wireshark 1.2.0 Sports Lots of New Features
Wireshark 1.2.0 is out. The new version of this popular packet sniffer includes many new features, including GeoIP integration, a 64-bit Windows installer, and more.
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July 1, 2009  
SecureBrowsing Extension for IE and Firefox
Finjan released SecureBrowsing, which is a browser extension than scan Web pages in realtime to detect potentially malicious content.
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July 1, 2009  
Will ICANN Ban Top Level DNS Wildcarding?
Some registrars use wildcard DNS systems to redirect users to their own sites when a DNS lookup fails, which can occur in a variety of circumstances. ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee wants to ban the practice.
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June 17, 2009  
Sniffing Browser History Without Javascript
Someone discovered a way to sniff sites from your browser history without using Javascript. Instead it uses an iframe that loads a server-side PHP script to do all the heavy lifting.
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June 17, 2009  
iPhone Recovery over USB
Jonathan Zdziarski's hour-long presentation regarding iPhone Forensics is now online at YouTube.
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June 17, 2009  
Gmail to go with HTTPS by default
Webmail is inherently insecure for several different reasons - one of which being that without SSL your correspondence is easily sniffed and possibly even stored in your browser's cache.
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June 11, 2009  
Google Posts Top 10 Malware Sites
Google released some statistics that reveal the top 10 malware sites in the world according to their site scanning research. You might want to blacklist all of them.
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June 10, 2009  
More Firefox Add-on Controversy And An Impending Fix?
Firefox users were up in arms over a Microsoft .NET extension that was silently installed without direct user approval. The extension was a bit tedious to remove for some people. Mozilla could move to at least alert users of such an installation.
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June 10, 2009  
StrongWebMail Weak On The Inside
Last week I mentioned StrongWebMail - a company that claimed they offer the strongest Web mail on the planet. That claim was proven false when a team of researchers bypassed security using an obvious inroad.
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