Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has detected that the Fox Sports site has been compromised and injected with malicious code. Fox Sports is a division of the Fox Broadcasting Company. It specializes in the latest sports news and world sports updates. Fox Sports has an Alexa ranking of 330.Our research ...
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Monday, November 30th, 2009 The Koobface Web site offers a video posted by 'SantA'. The usual ruse of requiring a codec to watch the video is used, to encourage the user to install and run a file called setup.exe (SHA1:a2046fc88ab82abec89e150b915ab4b332af924a). This file is currently detected by 16 out of 41 antivirus products according to ...
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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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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 The Mozilla Firefox development team started to check the Flash plugin version of Firefox web browsers on the What’s New page after Firefox updates recently. This page would inform users if the Flash plugin version of their web browser was not the latest one which usually meant that their web ...
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Monday, July 27th, 2009 More than 9 out of every 10 Windows users are vulnerable to the Flash zero-day vulnerability that Adobe won't patch until Thursday, a Danish security company said today.According to Secunia, 92% of the 900,000 users who have recently run the company's Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility have Flash Player 10 ...
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