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Article | 13/02/2013 Zero-day PDF exploit affects Adobe Reader 11 and earlier versions, researchers say
Researchers from security firm FireEye claim that attackers are actively using a remote code execution exploit that works against the latest versions ...
Article | 12/02/2013 Adobe releases patches for Flash Player and Shockwave Player
Adobe released security updates for Flash Player and Shockwave Player on Tuesday in order to address a total of 19 vulnerabilities affecting the two p...
Article | 12/02/2013 DaVinci surveillance malware distributed via zero-day Flash Player exploit, researchers say
Political activists from the Middle East were targeted in attacks that exploited a previously unknown Flash Player vulnerability to install a so-calle...
Article | 12/02/2013 McAfee enhances its business security management and SIEM products
McAfee is enhancing its business security platform by adding near real-time querying capabilities to its ePolicy Orchestrator software and by integrat...
Article | 11/02/2013 Mega: Bug bounty program resulted in seven vulnerabilities fixed so far
One week after launching a security bug bounty program, the new file-storage and sharing service Mega claims to have fixed seven vulnerabilities, none...
Article | 8/02/2013 Critical vulnerability in cURL library could affect large number of applications
A critical buffer overflow vulnerability patched this week in the widely used open-source cURL library (libcurl) has the potential to expose a large n...
Article | 8/02/2013 Banking malware returns to basics to evade detection, Trusteer says
Financial malware authors are trying to evade new online banking security systems by returning to more traditional phishing-like credential stealing t...
Article | 7/02/2013 New Whitehole exploit toolkit emerges on the underground market
A new exploit kit called Whitehole has emerged on the underground market, providing cybercriminals with one more tool to infect computers with malware...
Article | 6/02/2013 Barracuda Networks takes further steps to close backdoor access to its network gear
Barracuda Networks released a new update on Monday to further mitigate a security issue that could have allowed attackers to gain unauthorized access ...
Article | 6/02/2013 Researchers devise new attack techniques against SSL
The developers of many SSL libraries are releasing patches for a vulnerability that could potentially be exploited to recover plaintext information, s...
Article | 5/02/2013 Bad Kaspersky antivirus update prevents business and home users from accessing websites
A faulty antivirus update issued by Kaspersky Lab on Monday left many of its home and business customers unable to access any websites on their comput...
Article | 4/02/2013 Mega launches vulnerability reward program
The Mega file-sharing service has launched a vulnerability reward program that will pay up to €10,000 (around US$13,600) for every serious security fl...
Article | 1/02/2013 Broadcom UPnP implementation also contains critical vulnerability, researchers say
Security researchers from Croatia-based security firm DefenseCode claim to have found a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the UPnP (Univ...
Article | 31/01/2013 Email attack exploits vulnerability in Yahoo site to hijack accounts
Hackers behind a recently detected email attack campaign are exploiting a vulnerability in a Yahoo website to hijack the email accounts of Yahoo users...
Article | 31/01/2013 New York Times computer network breached by Chinese hackers, paper says
Hackers from China breached the computer network of The New York Times and stole passwords that allowed them to gain access to computers and email acc...

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