Saturday, April 26th, 2008
WordPress 2.5.1 came out recently. It includes a critical security fix for a cookie integrity bug that would allow an attacker to impersonate other users, including WordPress admins, by manipulating the contents of an HTTP cookie. Whenever I read about a vulnerability predicated on the user identity being embedded ...
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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, ...
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