Beset by some very public vulnerabilities in Java, and apparently unable to properly patch those bugs, Oracle must dramatically step up its security game, experts said Monday. "Oracle should just take a mulligan and redesign Java before ...
While the world’s online sharing community is excited about Kim Dotcom’s bold new venture, the file-storage and sharing service Mega, it is already drawing criticism from security researchers, who advise not to trust it. The ...
Cisco is investigating a reported vulnerability in Linksys firmware that would allow a hacker to gain full control of the wireless router. Security vendor DefenseCode discovered the flaw and reported it to Cisco "months ago." Because ...
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Foxit released version 5.4.5 of its Foxit Reader PDF viewer plug-in on Thursday in order to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to compromise computers running previous versions of the ...
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Researchers from a Poland-based vulnerability research firm on Friday announced that they had found vulnerabilities in Java 7 Update 11 that can be exploited to bypass the software’s security sandbox and execute arbitrary code on ...
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The new build of OSX Mountain Lion, 10.8.3 beta, has been seeded to developers, reports on Friday suggested, arriving little more than a week after the previous version with no known changes. The new build of the pre-release software, ...
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Oracle’s bad Java week got worse on Wednesday, after it was announced that a previously unknown flaw in the programming language still threatens the security of millions of PCs. This is despite the fact that Oracle issued an emergency ...
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A reported vulnerability in Linksys firmware that would allow a hacker to gain full control of the wireless router has led Cisco to launch an investigation, the firm said on Tuesday. Security vendor DefenseCode discovered the flaw and ...
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Microsoft today shipped an emergency update for Internet Explorer (IE) to stymie attacks that have been occurring since at least Dec. 7. The "out-of-band" update -- the label for a security fix outside a vendor's normal schedule -- was ...
Oracle on Sunday issued an emergency Java update to patch two critical vulnerabilities, including one that had been exploited in ongoing and accelerating attacks. Also yesterday, a researcher noted for uncovering scores of Java bugs ...
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The United States Department of Homeland Security has warned that Java is still open to attacks, despite Oracle's attempts to fix its vulnerabilities. Last week, it was discovered that the web browser software contained a zero-day ...
Adobe released security patches for its ColdFusion application server on Tuesday, addressing four critical vulnerabilities that have been actively exploited by attackers since the beginning of January. The company published a security ...
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IDG News Service - Foxit Reader, a PDF viewer application often used as an alternative to the more popular Adobe Reader, contains a critical vulnerability in its browser plug-in component that can be exploited by attackers to execute ...
Going on the most recent security flaw in Java, Oracle should rewrite the programming language completely and start again from scratch, according to Bogdan Botezatu, Senior E-Threat Analyst with Bitdefender, a Romanian-based antivirus ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will issue an emergency update to patch a vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) in the next two weeks to fix a flaw criminals have been using for more than a month, researchers said Tuesday. The company will ...