Hackers break into two FreeBSD Project servers using stolen SSH keys

Monday, November 19th, 2012

Intrusions on two machines within the FreeBSD.org cluster were detected on Nov. 11, the FreeBSD security team said Saturday. "The affected machines were taken offline for analysis. Additionally, a large portion of the remaining infrastructure machines were also taken offline as a precaution," said a message on the project's public ...

Adobe to fix Flash Player on Patch Tuesdays

Monday, November 19th, 2012

Adobe has changed its schedule for releasing Flash Player security updates to coincide with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule. "Microsoft and Adobe are now officially married," joked Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Security, a software vendor, in an email. "They started dating when they decided to share ...

Ubuntu for Android

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

Ubuntu for Android

IE10 now updates in the background like the rest of the browsers, by default.

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012



Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

We recently received two malicious utilities that appeared to be digitally signed using a valid Adobe code signing certificate. The discovery of these utilities was isolated to a single source. As soon as we verified the signatures, we immediately decommissioned the existing Adobe code signing infrastructure and initiated a forensics ...