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Showing posts with label spyware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spyware. Show all posts

Sunday, July 18, 2010

CSI:Internet Episode 1: Alarm at the pizza service by Thorsten Holz

This article CSI:Internet Episode 1: Alarm at the pizza service goes a long way in explaining how the use of iFrames (a technology developed by Microsoft for inserting a web page into another web page) may be used to compromise web sites using SQL injection.

Friday, January 22, 2010

I thought as much - Microsoft sued over XP's "spyware" copy protection

In this article Microsoft sued over XP's "spyware" copy protection we hear that someone is suing Microsoft for, among other things, installing spyware in Windows XP as "security update". The software in question is Windows Genuine Authentication (WGA). According to Microsoft the purpose of this software is ensure the user's copy of Windows XP and Vista are genuine and claimed no personal information is collected.