Security experts have flagged a zero-day exploit in Oracle's Java software,urging users to disable it to prevent hackers remotely controlling their computers. "Java is a mess.It's not secure,"said James Blasco,labs manager for internet ...
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Security researchers say a patch released by Yahoo earlier this week for a serious email vulnerability did not fix the problem, leaving users at risk. The cross-site scripting flaw was found by Shahin Ramezany, who goes by the nickname ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft today patched 12 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and several server and development products, but as it hinted last week, did not come up with a fix for the Internet Explorer (IE) bug that cyber criminals have ...
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CSO - A researcher has bypassed Microsoft's temporary fix for a zero-day Internet Explorer browser vulnerability that hackers have been exploiting for a month. The exploit, developed by Peter Vreugdenhil of the vulnerability analysis ...
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The developers of Ruby on Rails, a popular open source Web application development framework for the Ruby programming language, released versions 3.2.10, 3.1.9, and 3.0.18 of the software on Wednesday in order to patch a serious SQL ...
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Facebook has reported fixing a flaw that made it possible to snoop on private New Year's Eve messages sent using a "Midnight Delivery" service. Facebook took "Midnight Delivery" offline temporarily to patch a vulnerability pointed out by ...
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Digital certificates issued by an authority in Turkey are being used for "man in the middle" attacks on Google properties, according to warnings issued by both Microsoft and Google. The security flaw was traced to a fraudulent digital ...
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Economists and experts said that the petrochemical sector in Saudi Arabia needed to shift from manufacturing primary products to intermediate and advanced ones,if companies want to survive in domestic and international markets. They said ...
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Microsoft on Saturday confirmed that Internet Explorer (IE) 6, 7 and 8 contain an unpatched bug -- or "zero-day" vulnerability -- that is being used by attackers to hijack victims' Windows computers. The company is "working around the ...
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Digital certificates issued by an authority in Turkey are being used for "man in the middle" attacks on Google properties, according to warnings issued by both Microsoft and Google. The security flaw was traced to a fraudulent digital ...
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Network World-A researcher at North Carolina State University has uncovered a vulnerability that could be exploited to send deceptive text messages from some Android devices,as part of a phishing scheme. MORE ON ANDROID:Hottest Android ...
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Microsoft today said it will release seven security updates next week--including one rated critical for Windows 8 and Windows RT--to patch 12 vulnerabilities in Windows,Office,SharePoint Server and the company's website design software. ...
Attackers are exploiting a "zero-day" vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and hijacking Windows PCs that cruise to malicious or compromised websites, security experts said Monday. Microsoft confirmed the IE bug, saying, ...
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Mozilla has released a fix for the latest version of its Firefox browser a day after it was withdrawn due to a security flaw. The non-profit organisation said the vulnerability in Firefox 16 could allow a malicious website to capture web ...
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Some advertising analytics companies are using a vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser for a questionable edge in figuring out if web users are seeing display advertisements buried within web pages. The flaw, if fixed by ...
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