Exploit Code

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Exploit Code”

• Patch Tuesday: Microsoft plugs IE drive-by download security holes

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  The most serious issues affect the companys Internet Explorer browser, including the newest IE 8 on Windows 7.
  3 hours ago

• SpyPhone app harvests personal data from stock iPhones

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  The iPhone app can snag geolocation data, passwords, address book entries and email account information, all using just the public API that Apple has made available to developers.
  4 days ago

• Critical Adobe Flash, Adobe Air patches on tap

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  The patches will be released alongside updates from Microsoft and will affect all platforms -- Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
  4 days ago

• Patch Tuesday heads-up: MS to fix critical IE, Office security holes

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  Microsoft plans to release six security bulletins next Tuesday (December 8, 2009) to fix security flaws affected IE, Microsoft Office and the Windows operating system.
  5 days ago

• Critical zero-day flaw found in Adobe Illustrator

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  Adobes security response team is scrambling to deal with the release of exploit code for what appears to be a critical zero-day flaw in the Adobe Illustrator CS4 software product.
  5 days ago

• Cache poisoning vulnerability in ISC BIND 9

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  The vulnerability exists in the way BIND 9 handles recursive client queries that may cause additional records to be added to its cache.
  5 days ago

• Fake H1N1 (Swine Flu) alerts lead to malware

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  The e-mail messages contain a link to a bogus Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site with prompts to create a user profile. During this process, a malware file gets planted on the users machine.
  6 days ago

• Beware of rigged PDF files on BlackBerry

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  Hackers can use maliciously rigged PDF files to hack into corporate systems hosting the BlackBerry Attachment Service.
  1 week ago

• Exploit published for FreeBSD local root vulnerability

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  The FreeBSD security team has rushed out a temporary patch to cover a local root vulnerability that exposes users to code execution attacks.
  1 week ago

• Clientless SSL VPNs expose corporate users to attacks

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  This security problem, discussed since at least 2006, could let an attacker could use these devices to bypass authentication or conduct other web-based attacks.
  1 week ago

• New ransomware attack blocks Internet access

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  Once a machine is infected, a message is posted in Russian demanding a ransom under the guise of activating the uFast Download Manager application.
  1 week ago

• New IE 6/7 vulnerabilities and exploit code (977981)

  
  Windows 2008 Security — Authority: 150
  Microsoft is currently evaluating this new vulnerability and zero-day exploit code has been published.
  1 week ago

• Exploit published for critical IE 7 zero-day flaw

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  The vulnerability could be used in malware attacks to take complete control of a Windows machine running IE 6 or IE 7.
  2 weeks ago

• Inside the Google Chrome OS security model

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  Google will use a combination of system hardening, process isolation, verified boot, secure auto-update and encryption that thwart malicious hackers from attacking its new Google Chrome OS.
  2 weeks ago

• Microsoft finds security hole in Google Chrome Frame

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  A security researcher in the Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR) has discovered a "high risk" Google Chrome Frame security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to bypass cross-origin protections.
  2 weeks ago

• Mozilla locks out rogue Firefox add-ons

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  Mozilla has made a significant tweak to this Firefox 3.6 code base to block rogue add-ons from loading in the browsers application components directory.
  2 weeks ago

• Microsoft confirms detailed Windows 7 exploit

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  Exploit code for the vulnerability was released by researcher Laurent Gaffié after failed attempts to get Microsofts security response center to acknowledge that this was an issue that needs to be patched.
  3 weeks ago

• Microsoft bracing for malware attacks from embedded fonts

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  Its only a matter of time before malicious hackers start exploiting a critical Windows vulnerability via booby-trapped Web pages or Office (Word or PowerPoint) documents.
  3 weeks ago

• Apple Safari exposes Windows to drive-by download attacks

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 579
  A high-priority Safari update patches vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution (drive-by downloads) if a user simply surfs to a maliciously rigged Web site.
  3 weeks ago

• Summary of Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Release for November 2009

  
  Microsoft Patch Watch — Authority: 158
  Today, we released six security bulletins addressing a total of 15 vulnerabilities.
  3 weeks ago

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