Wednesday, February 5th, 2014
Adobe has released a fix for a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player, which impacts users running Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.
On Tuesday, the company made the updates available via a security bulletin, urging Windows and Mac users to download Flash Player versions 12.0.0.44 and 11.7.700.261 (for those who cannot ...
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
Kaspersky Lab researchers have recently analysed a piece of malware that works well on all three of the most popular computer operating systems - the only thing that it needs to compromise targeted computers is for them to run a flawed version of Java.
The Trojan is written wholly in Java, and exploits ...
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Sunday, January 5th, 2014
Yahoo.com visitors over the last few days may have been served with malware via the Yahoo ad network, according to a security firm in the Netherlands. Users clicking on some of the ads were redirected to sites armed with code that exploits vulnerabilities in Java and installs a variety of different ...
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Trend Micro came across samples of an exploit targeting the recently announced zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows XP and Server 2003. This is an elevation of privilege vulnerability, which may allow a threat actor to gain certain privileges that enable him to do varied activities, including deleting or viewing data, installing programs, or ...
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2013
Symantec has discovered a new Linux worm that appears to be engineered to target the “Internet of things”. The worm is capable of attacking a range of small, Internet-enabled devices in addition to traditional computers. Variants exist for chip architectures usually found in devices such as home routers, set-top boxes ...
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