A leading analyst says there currently is little risk of large-scale malware attacks on Wi-Fi networks, responding to a warning by an Indiana University research team that a virus could be used to quickly infect most Wi-Fi routers in a large city.
What had appeared to be an internal MySpace administration page, found on an online forum by a prominent security researcher, has been claimed by a domain-name registration and web-hosting vendor.
The information in an authentication dialog box from Mozilla's Firefox browser can be spoofed, allowing an attacker to conduct phishing schemes, according to Israeli researcher Aviv Raff.
An attacker can carry out cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks on a vulnerable system through newly disclosed vulnerabilities in Shockwave Flash (SWF) files.
MySpace is deleting fake user profiles, spoofed to appear to have been created by Tom Anderson, the website's president and co-founder, that offer free access to ringtones.