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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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 Critical vulnerability affects latest VLC media player version
Versions 2.0.5 and earlier of the popular VLC media player software contain a critical vulnerability that can be potentially exploited by attackers to...
Article | 29/01/2013 Ruby on Rails receives the third security patch in less than a month
Developers of the Ruby on Rails Web development framework released versions 3.0.20 and 2.3.16 of the software on Monday in order to address a critical...
Article | 29/01/2013 UPnP flaws expose tens of millions of networked devices to remote attacks, researchers say
Tens of millions of network-enabled devices including routers, printers, media servers, IP cameras, smart TVs and more can be attacked over the Intern...
Article | 23/01/2013 Mega responds to security concerns; promises some changes
Representatives of newly launched file-storage and sharing service Mega addressed some of the concerns raised by security researchers in recent days a...
Article | 22/01/2013 Twitter flaw gave third-party apps unauthorized access to private messages, researcher says
Users who signed into third-party Web or mobile applications using their Twitter accounts might have given those applications access to their Twitter ...

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