An Adobe Flash exploit has targeted three sites. Adobe Systems on Thursday announced knowledge of the exploit and what steps to take. The company assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2014-0502 to the vulnerability. Its security bulletin ...
Tags: zero-day exploit, Security updates, Adobe Flash Player
A 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 ...
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Internet Explorer's poor reputation for security is undeserved, with Mozilla Firefox actually the most vulnerable internet browser in common usage. That's according to research by network security solutions provider Sourcefire, which ...
Adobe has released an emergency patch to fix at least two zero-day vulnerabilities being used to install malware in its Flash Player software that could allow attackers to control affected systems. Hackers had exploited security loopholes ...
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 ...
Tags: Microsoft, IE, unpatched bug, vulnerability
Computerworld-Several major software companies,including Microsoft and Symantec,today kicked off what they called"International Technology Upgrade Week"in an attempt to persuade users to keep their code current. Upgrades have been hotly ...
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Businesses and consumers can now download Windows 8 Release Preview from the Microsoft site. Microsoft said the February release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview was downloaded more than 1 million times in the first 24 hours. Microsoft ...
Cyber criminals targeted users of Skype,Facebook and Windows using multiple Blackhole exploits in October,according to the latest threat report from security firm GFI Software. Researchers uncovered a large number of Blackhole exploits ...
Tags: Cyber criminals, Facebook, Windows users, chameleon of internet threats
"The number of fronts of risk and war, as some people call it, are definitely multiplying," says Clinton McFadden, senior operations manager for IBM X-Force research and development, which just released the results of its X-Force 2012 ...
Tags: Cyberwarfare, Trend and Risk Report., IBM, US
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has announced the availability of high-quality, low-micropipe 150mm 4H n-type silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers, with highly uniform epitaxial layers as thick as 100 microns available for immediate purchase ...
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Researchers have confirmed the existence of new Mac malware just hours before the release of Mountain Lion, the latest version of Apple's OS X operating system. Within hours, researchers at security company Sophos also confirmed an iOS ...
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