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Facebook and Microsoft Are Winning Plaudits From Security Researchers
Nov 19, 2013Facebook and Microsoft are winning plaudits from security researchers for launching an initiative to offer bounties to bug hunters who discover and report vulnerabilities in widely used products. Unlike other bug bounty programmes, the ...
Tags: security, researcher, laud, Microsoft, Facebook, bounty
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Angler Exploit Kit Have Added an Exploit for a Known Vulnerability
Nov 18, 2013The creators of a Web-based attack tool called Angler Exploit Kit have added an exploit for a known vulnerability in Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in to the tool's arsenal. Exploit kits are essentially malicious Web applications ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Latest Round of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Monthly Release of Security Fixes
Oct 11, 2013As anticipated, the latest round of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday monthly release of security fixes addresses a widely known Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability already being exploited by malicious hackers. Overall, for October’s ...
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Adobe Released Security Updates for Flash Player,Adobe Reader and Shockwave Player
Sep 12, 2013Adobe released security updates for Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Shockwave Player on Tuesday to address critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to take control of systems running vulnerable versions of those programs. The ...
Tags: Adobe, Flash Player
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Security Researchers From Group-IB Have Uncovered a Cyberfraud Operation
May 17, 2013Security researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm Group-IB have uncovered a cyberfraud operation that uses specialized financial malware to target the customers of several major Australian banks. Over 150,000 computers, ...
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The Adobe Reader and Acrobat Updates Include Fixes for 27 Vulnerabilities
May 16, 2013updates for its Reader, Acrobat, Flash Player and ColdFusion products on Tuesday to fix many critical vulnerabilities, including one that is already actively exploited by attackers. The Adobe Reader and Acrobat updates include fixes for ...
Tags: Adobe, Computer Products, Security Updates
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McAfee Found a Vulnerability in Adobe Systems' Reader Program
May 2, 2013McAfee said it has found a vulnerability in Adobe Systems' Reader program that reveals when and where a PDF document is opened. The issue is not a serious problem and does not allow for remote code execution,?wrote?McAfee's?Haifei Li in a ...
Tags: McAfee Spots, PDF-Tracking Flaw
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Bypass Traditional Defense Technologies on Their Networks Every Three Minutes
Apr 3, 2013Organizations face malware-related events that bypass traditional defense technologies on their networks every three minutes, according to a new report released Wednesday by security vendor FireEye. "This activity can include the receipt ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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iOS Continues to Lead in The Enterprise Space as The Mobile Platform of Choice
Mar 29, 2013iOS continues to lead in the enterprise space as the mobile platform of choice, according to cloud computing vendor, Citrix. In its latest Citrix Enterprise Mobility Cloud report, it claimed that iOS made up 58 percent of all global ...
Tags: iOS, mobile platform, cloud computing
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A Day After Researchers Hacked Chrome and Firefox at The Pwn2Own Contest
Mar 12, 2013A day after researchers hacked Chrome and Firefox at the Pwn2Own contest, Google and Mozilla patched their browsers Thursday. The contest also wound down yesterday after hackers had earned a record $480,000 over two days. The update to ...
Tags: Chrome, Firefox, Google Mozilla
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Research Teams Wednesday Cracked Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10
Mar 11, 2013Research teams Wednesday cracked Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, pulling in more than $250,000 in prizes. Earlier in the day, a solo hacker exploited Oracle's ...
Tags: Microsoft, Oracle's Java, explorer
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BitDefender Has Traced The Cyber-Espionage Malware "Miniduke" Back to June 2011
Mar 6, 2013Romanian security company BitDefender today said it has traced the cyber-espionage malware "MiniDuke" back to June 2011, more than a year and a half before the campaign was uncovered. BitDefender found the malware by digging through its ...
Tags: BitDefender, MiniDuke, espionage malware
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Google Patched 10 Vulnerabilities in Chrome
Mar 6, 2013Google today patched 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome, just two days before the start of Pwn2Own, a hacking contest that has $100,000 in prize money waiting for the first researcher to crack the browser. In an update Monday for the Windows ...
Tags: Google, Service, web service
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Researchers Have Identified an Ongoing Cyber-Espionage Campaign
Mar 1, 2013Security researchers have identified an ongoing cyber-espionage campaign that compromised 59 computers belonging to government organizations, research institutes, think tanks and private companies from 23 countries in the past 10 days. ...
Tags: cyber-espionage, computers, cyber security
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MiniDuke Has Targeted Government Organisations in as Many as 23 Countries
Mar 1, 2013A cyber espionage operation dubbed MiniDuke has targeted government organisations in as many as 23 countries, security vendors said on Wednesday. The malware uses well-crafted PDF documents to trick recipients into opening the malicious ...
Tags: MiniDuke, Malware, Governments