May Patch Tuesday critical for users of Internet Explorer and web-based services
Written by v2r on May 14, 2013 – 8:26 pm -Microsoft has just released its monthly updates for May 2013. The zero-day IE flaw used on the Dept of Labor website was fixed, as well as an IE 10 hole used at PWN2OWN. Critical fixes for Adobe Reader, Flash Player and ColdFusion also hit the streets today....
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Compromised US Government Webpage Used Zero-Day Exploit
Written by v2r on May 6, 2013 – 6:49 am -A new Internet Explorer zero-day exploit has been spotted in a compromised website of the US Department of Labor. When users visit the compromised website, it loads a malicious script which Trend Micro detects as JS_DLAGENT.USR. This particular script was hosted on the compromised site itself. It loads another script (this time, h...
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La banque centrale Australienne victime de spear-phishing
Written by v2r on March 12, 2013 – 6:01 pm -C’était en 2011 mais le rapport d’incident vient seulement d’être publié. En Novembre 2011, plusieurs employés de la « Reserve Bank of Australia« , dont des directeurs de service, ont reçu un email intitulé « Strategic Plannig FYI 2012« . Le mail semblait légitime ...
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Zero-Day Vulnerability Hits Adobe Reader
Written by v2r on February 14, 2013 – 8:52 am -Zero-day season is far from over as reports indicate that an exploit was found targeting zero-day vulnerabilities for certain versions of Adobe Reader. This discovery came on the heels of the recent Adobe Flash Player incident that occurred last week. In the related samples we gathered, the exploit is disguised as a .PDF file (dete...
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Anatomy of a targeted attack – SophosLabs explores an Adobe zero-day "malware experiment"
Written by v2r on February 14, 2013 – 4:52 am -SophosLabs was contacted recently to help investigate malware from an unusual sort of targeted attack. What our researchers found was intriguing, to say the least, so we thought we'd share our discoveries with you... ...
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Protect against latest Java zero-day vulnerability right now: Mal/JavaJar-B
Written by v2r on January 10, 2013 – 7:29 pm -In the past 24 hours, many popular exploit kits have been found to be targeting what appears to be a new zero-day vulnerability in Java. Read this article for advice on how to fend off these attacks....
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Monday review – the hot 17 stories of the week
Written by v2r on January 7, 2013 – 1:22 am -OK, these aren't just the hot 17 stories of the past week, but of the two weeks before that, too. If, like us, you've been enjoying some downtime over the Christmas and New Year holidays, here's your quickest way to get back up to speed with Naked Security......
READ MORE >>Tags: Bollywood, computer security, cracking, Facebook, firewall, IE, Iran, Java, Law & order, Malware, malware remove, mcdonalds, Microsoft, monday review, passwords, privacy, scarlet johannson, Security threats, Social networks, spam, SSL, Turkey, virus remove, zero-day
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Zero day vulnerability in Internet Explorer being used in targeted attacks, FixIt now available
Written by v2r on December 31, 2012 – 11:14 pm -Microsoft has released an advisory on a new zero day attack against users of Internet Explorer. While a Fixit is available it may be best to avoid using IE for awhile....
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Hacker selling $700 exploit that hijacks Yahoo email accounts
Written by v2r on November 26, 2012 – 12:59 pm -A hacker is selling a $700 zero-day exploit for Yahoo Mail that lets an attacker leverage a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability to steal cookies and hijack accounts. ...
READ MORE >>Tags: Brian Krebs, computer security, Data loss, email, Exploit, Featured, Malware, malware remove, Security threats, TheHell, virus remove, Vulnerability, Yahoo, zero-day
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Adobe Reader zero-day exploit thwarts sandboxing
Written by v2r on November 8, 2012 – 6:02 pm -The vulnerability is selling for up to $50K on the black market, security researchers say, and has been included in a package of banking Trojans called the Blackhole Exploit Kit, which is the most prevalent exploit kit out there. ...
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