Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 Adobe Systems Inc. said Monday it is investigating reports that attackers are exploiting a previously unidentified security hole in its Acrobat and PDF Reader software to break into vulnerable computers.The acknowledgment coincided with an alert published by the Shadowserver Foundation, a nonprofit group that tracks the spread of malicious programs ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Vulnerability assessment vendor Rapid7 has announced the first of a series of steps to integrate its penetration testing and vulnerability assessment scanning products. The first step is a module that allows users of the Metasploit Framework, which Rapid7 acquired in October to natively import NeXpose scanner results and then take ...
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 VMware has advised of a total of 93 vulnerabilities in several of its products, including ESX Server, Server, VirtualCenter and vCenter. Most of the vulnerabilities are in Java, Tomcat and the kernel and have been known for some time. Some of them can be exploited to compromise a system, however, ...
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 Nearly one year after the release of Metasploit 3.2, the Metasploit Project developers have announced the availability of version 3.3 of the Metasploit Framework. The comprehensive programming framework for developing exploits for vulnerabilities is used by security researchers, penetration testers and black hat crackers alike. The latest release includes a ...
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Friday, November 13th, 2009 Researchers have discovered a new attack that exploits the way browsers operate with Adobe Flash -- and there's no simple patch for it.The attack can occur on Websites that accept user-generated content -- anything from Webmail to social networking sites. An attacker basically takes advantage of the fact that a ...
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