PHP 5.2.6 plugs security holes

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

The developers of the PHP scripting language have issued Version 5.2.6, which fixes numerous bugs and plugs some security holes. The changes are comprehensive, including bug fixes to modules that link to third-party products. PHP 5.2.6 also rectifies several flaws that could have caused a crash. The developers have eliminated errors ...

Targeted attacks using malicious PDF files

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Dating back to the end of February, we have been tracking test runs of malicious PDF messages to very specific targets. These PDF files exploit the recent vulnerability CVE-2008-0655. Ever since the end of March, beginning of April, the amount of samples seen in the wild has significantly increased. Interestingly enough, ...