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Oracle Released a Huge Update for The Virtually Ubiquitous Software
Jun 20, 2013Java continues to be Public Enemy No. 1 when it comes to computer and network security. Oracle released a huge update for the virtually ubiquitous software, but attackers aren’t done exploiting Java as the weakest link in the security ...
Tags: Java Update, Oracle
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A New Vulnerability That Affects The Latest Desktop and Server Versions of The JRE
Apr 25, 2013Java vulnerability hunters from Polish security research firm Security Explorations claim to have found a new vulnerability that affects the latest desktop and server versions of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). The vulnerability is ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Apple Patched Java for The OS X Snow Leopard and Tweaked Safari
Apr 19, 2013Apple on Tuesday patched Java for the aged OS X Snow Leopard and tweaked Safari to give users more control over what websites they let run the vulnerability plagued Oracle software. Oracle on Tuesday shipped an update for Java 6 and Java ...
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Java Were Likely Launched by The Same Attackers That Previously Targeted Security Firm Bit
Mar 6, 2013The attacks discovered last week that exploited a previously unknown Java vulnerability were likely launched by the same attackers that previously targeted security firm Bit9 and its customers, according to researchers from antivirus vendor ...
Tags: Java, Bit9, technology
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A New Exploit for a Previously Unknown and Java Vulnerability Is Being Actively Used
Mar 5, 2013A new exploit for a previously unknown and unpatched Java vulnerability is being actively used by attackers to infect computers with malware, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. "We observed successful exploitation ...
Tags: Computer Products, Computer, software
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Two New Bugs in The Browser Plug-in to Oracle
Feb 27, 2013A Polish security firm known for rooting out Java vulnerabilities has reported two new bugs in the browser plug-in to Oracle, Security Explorations said today. On its bug-reporting status page, Security Explorations noted that it had ...
Tags: Java vulnerabilitie, Oracle, company news
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Twitter Announced That It Had Been The Target of an Attack
Feb 25, 2013The administrators of a popular iOS developer Web forum called iPhoneDevSDK confirmed Wednesday that it had been compromised by hackers who used it to launch attacks against its users. Security experts believe the site served as a gateway ...
Tags: iOS, PhoneDevSDK, Facebook, Apple
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Some Computers Belonging to Apple's Employees Were Targeted by Hackers From China
Feb 21, 2013Apple on Tuesday said that some computers belonging to its employees had been targeted by hackers originating from China – the same group, reportedly, that last week infiltrated computers belonging to Facebook employees. ...
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The Website Was Booby-Trapped to Deliver Malicious Software
Jan 24, 2013The website for Reporters Without Borders was booby-trapped to deliver malicious software using the latest Java and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, security vendor Avast said on Tuesday. Reporters Without Borders, based in Paris, is an ...
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The Governments, Military Were Not Only Attacked Using Malicious Excel and Word Documents
Jan 17, 2013The hundreds of ctargeted in a large-scale cyberespionage operation dubbed Red October were not only attacked using malicious Excel and Word documents as previously believed, but also by using Web-based Java exploits, according to ...
Tags: cyberespionage, Red October Cyberespionage Attacks, cyber security
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An Exploit Is Being Used by Cybercriminals to Infect Computers with Malware
Jan 14, 2013An exploit for a previously unknown and currently unpatched vulnerability in Java is being used by cybercriminals to infect computers with malware, according to security researchers. An independent malware researcher who uses the online ...
Tags: exploit, unpatched vulnerability, Java, cybercriminals
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Researchers Have Identified a Variant of a Recently Discovered Internet Explorer Exploit
Dec 31, 2012IDG News Service - Researchers from security vendor AlienVault have identified a variant of a recently discovered Internet Explorer exploit that is used to infect targeted computers with the PlugX remote access Trojan (RAT) program. The ...
Tags: IE, malware, Internet Explorer, website
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A Recent Java 7 Update Allows Users to Completely Prevent Java Applications
Dec 28, 2012A recent Java 7 update allows users to completely prevent Java applications from running inside browsers or to restrict how Web-based Java content is handled by the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) client. These features will benefit ...
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Attackers Exploit a New and Unpatched Vulnerability That Affects The Java 7 Update 6
Dec 26, 2012IDG News Service - Attackers are exploiting a new and unpatched vulnerability that affects the latest version of Java -- Java 7 Update 6 -- in order to infect computers with malware, according to researchers from security vendor FireEye. ...
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Oracle Released out-of-Cycle Security Update to Patch Newly Identified Vulnerabilities
Dec 25, 2012Oracle has released an out-of-cycle security update to patch newly identified vulnerabilities in Java 7 that have been widely exploited, after the security community urged the company not to wait. The move comes hot on the heels of news ...
Tags: Oracle, Metasploit tool, Blackhole exploit kit, Java vulnerabilities