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If you’ve been following this series of security maxims, you’re probably pretty careful about what you do on the web. You certainly have strong passwords for all of your logins, all of them different, and you don’t go around telling people what they are or keeping them on sticky notes attached to the monitor at [...]

According to Secunia Advisory SA26960, If you have the Ask Toolbar installed on your system, you’re at risk. From Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2007-39:
A vulnerability has been discovered in the Ask.com Ask Toolbar, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system. The vulnerability, a boundary error in the AskJeevesToolBar.SettingsPlugin.1 ActiveX control [...]

After downloading and installing Firefox 2.0 last week, I noticed that the option to disable third party cookies was no longer available under Options–>Privacy. I didn’t think much about it until Steve Gibson addressed the issue in Security Now! Episode 64. And I have to agree with his asking “why?”
Firefox has not only become my [...]