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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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Yahoo Is Slimming Itself Down Again by Axing 12 of Its Products
Jun 28, 2013Yahoo is slimming itself down again by axing 12 of its products, part of an ongoing effort to sharpen its focus on services it thinks people need in their daily lives. The list includes AltaVista, the granddaddy of search engines, and ...
Tags: Yahoo, Yahoo RSS Alerts
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Oracle Plans to Make Changes to Strengthen The Security of Java
May 31, 2013Oracle plans to make changes to strengthen the security of Java, including fixing its certificate revocation checking feature, preventing unsigned applets from being executed by default and adding centralized management options with ...
Tags: Oracle, Java Security Improvement
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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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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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Apple Patched Java 6 for OS X, Following Oracle's Quashing a Browser Vulnerability
Mar 7, 2013Apple on Monday patched Java 6 for OS X, following Oracle's lead and quashing a browser plug-in vulnerability that hackers have been exploiting. Oracle issued the "out-of-band," or emergency, update for Java 6 and Java 7 to patch two ...
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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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Mozilla Released Firefox 19, Adding a Built-in PDF Viewer to The Browser
Feb 21, 2013Mozilla today released Firefox 19, adding a built-in PDF viewer to the browser. The integrated viewer was the one noticeable change to users, although Mozilla enhanced under-the-hood features as well for website developers, and added ...
Tags: Mozilla, in-Browser PDF, Firefox Bugs
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Java Returned to The Top Spot in a Monthly Assessment of The Popularity
Feb 18, 2013Despite recent headlines about its security woes, Java has returned to the top spot in a monthly assessment of the popularity of programming languages, 10 months after being supplanted by the C language. The Tiobe Programming Community ...
Tags: Java, C language, programming languages
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Apple Released Its Own Update for Java 6 for Mac Users Running OS X Snow Leopard
Feb 6, 2013Apple on Friday released its own update for Java 6 for Mac users running OS X Snow Leopard, matching Oracle’s update for Java 7, which was patched the same day. Customers running OS X Lion or OS X Mountain Lion must update Java 7 ...
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Apple on Friday Shipped an Update to Java 6 for Mac Users
Feb 4, 2013Computerworld - Apple on Friday shipped an update to Java 6 for Mac users running OS X Snow Leopard, matching Oracle's cadence for Java 7, which was patched the same day. Customers running OS X Lion or OS X Mountain Lion must update Java ...
Tags: Apple, OS X, Computer Products
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Mozilla Would Disable All Plug-Ins in Firefox Except The Latest Adobe's Flash Player
Feb 1, 2013Mozilla yesterday announced it would automatically disable all plug-ins in Firefox except the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player, citing security and stability reasons for the move. The feature, called "click-to-play," has been part ...
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Java's New Security Settings Can Be Bypassed by Hackers
Jan 28, 2013Java's new security settings, designed to block "drive-by" browser attacks, can be bypassed by hackers, a researcher announced Sunday. The news came in the aftermath of several embarrassing "zero-day" vulnerabilities, and a recent ...
Tags: Bug, Moot Java, Anti-Exploit Defense
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Oracle Must Dramatically Step up Its Security Game
Jan 25, 2013Oracle must dramatically step up its security game, security experts said this week, following the release of a number of very public vulnerabilities in Java, many of which still remain unpatched. “Oracle should just take a mulligan ...
Tags: Oracle, security game, public vulnerabilities, Java