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Pop-up vulnerability found in major browsers
News To take advantage of the flaw, a cybercriminal would have to direct a Web user from a malicious site to a genuine, trusted site such as an online bank, in a new browser window. It encouraged surfers not to trust pop-up windows that don't include an...
23 June 2005, 8:49 > More matches in News
Bypass found for Windows piracy check
News Researcher Debasis Mohanty outlined what he said was a technique to trick Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage validation check in a posting to the Full Disclosure security mailing list on Monday. We expected counterfeiters to try a number of...
24 May 2005, 9:09 > More matches in News
Microsoft plans to give some pirates a break
News The move is the latest in a series of expansions for the Windows Genuine Advantage program, which Microsoft quietly launched last September. The Windows Genuine effort started as a purely voluntary program, but Microsoft has since been requiring...
5 May 2005, 9:24 > More matches in News


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