After the dns + evilgrade fiasco I hope that insecure auto update functions are taken as serious as they should always have been Back in 2006 I warned about it when reporting that Zango Adware was downloading and executing udaptes without checking for authenticity. Zango fixed it eventually, my scenario I illustrated back then however was seen as unlikely event. Fast Forward 2 years - oops.
What is of more concern is that adware update process seems to be more "secure" in 2006 than adobe acrobat is in 2008. ouch.
The Life Cycle of a Breached Database
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Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our
password at the breached entity. But the reality is that in most cases by
the time the ...
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