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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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BitDefender Has Traced The Cyber-Espionage Malware "Miniduke" Back to June 2011
Mar 6, 2013Romanian security company BitDefender today said it has traced the cyber-espionage malware "MiniDuke" back to June 2011, more than a year and a half before the campaign was uncovered. BitDefender found the malware by digging through its ...
Tags: BitDefender, MiniDuke, espionage malware
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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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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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Attackers Uses Fake Versions of a Released Report About a Chinese Cyberespionage Group
Feb 25, 2013Attackers are using fake versions of a recently released report about a Chinese cyberespionage group as bait in new spear-phishing attacks that target Japanese and Chinese users. The report was released Tuesday by security firm Mandiant ...
Tags: cyberespionage, China, cyber security
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Adobe Would Release an Emergency Patch for Two Reader Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Feb 20, 2013Adobe on Saturday said it would release an emergency patch for two Reader zero-day vulnerabilities this week. Hackers have already been exploiting the bugs using rigged PDF documents sent as email attachments. "Adobe plans to make ...
Tags: Adobe, Windows, viewing software
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Adobe Released an Emergency Update for Flash Player in Order to Address Two Zero-Day
Feb 18, 2013Political activists from the Middle East were targeted in attacks that exploited a previously unknown Flash Player vulnerability to install a so-called lawful interception program designed for law enforcement use, security researchers from ...
Tags: Flash Player, Adobe, mergency update
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Adobe on Thursday Updated Flash Player to Patch a Pair of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Feb 18, 2013Adobe on Thursday updated Flash Player to patch a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers were already using to hijack Windows PCs and Macs. The out-of-band, or emergency, update was Flash's first of the year and the first since ...
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Adobe Released Security Updates for Flash Player and Shockwave Player
Feb 17, 2013Adobe released security updates for Flash Player and Shockwave Player on Tuesday in order to address a total of 19 vulnerabilities affecting the two products. New stand-alone versions of Flash Player 11 were released for Windows, Mac, ...
Tags: Adobe, Flash Player, Shockwave Player
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A New Exploit Kit Called Whitehole Has Emerged on The Underground Market
Feb 17, 2013A new exploit kit called Whitehole has emerged on the underground market, providing cybercriminals with one more tool to infect computers with malware over the Web, security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro reported Wednesday. ...
Tags: Whitehole, underground market, malware, antivirus software
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Adobe Released Security Patches for Both Flash Player and Shockwave Player
Feb 16, 2013Adobe on Tuesday released security patches for both Flash Player and Shockwave Player, addressing a total of 19 vulnerabilities affecting the two products. New stand-alone versions of Flash Player 11 were released for Windows, Mac, Linux ...
Tags: Adobe, security patches, Flash Player, Shockwave Player
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Adobe Updated Flash Player on Thursday to Patch a Pair of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Feb 16, 2013Adobe updated Flash Player on Thursday in order to patch a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers have reportedly been using to hijack Windows PCs and Macs. The out-of-band, or emergency, update was Flash’s first of the year ...
Tags: Adobe, Flash Player, vulnerabilities
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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