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Article | 10/01/2013 Java zero-day vulnerability actively exploited by attackers

An exploit for a previously unknown and currently unpatched vulnerability in Java is being used by cybercriminals to infect computers with malware, ac...

Article | 10/01/2013 Foxit Reader vulnerable to critical remote code execution flaw

Foxit Reader, a PDF viewer application often used as an alternative to the more popular Adobe Reader, contains a critical vulnerability in its browser...

Article | 9/01/2013 Botnets for hire likely used in attacks against US banks, security firm says

Evidence collected from a website that was recently used to flood U.S. banks with junk traffic suggests that the people behind the ongoing DDoS attack...

Article | 9/01/2013 Adobe patches critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat

Adobe Systems released new versions of Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat on Tuesday in order to address a total of 28 critical security vul...

Article | 8/01/2013 Privacy advocates welcome Yahoo Mail HTTPS roll-out

Digital rights and privacy advocates have welcomed Yahoo's decision to provide its users with an option to enable HTTPS (HTTP Secure) for their entire...

Article | 7/01/2013 Adobe warns of actively exploited ColdFusion flaws

Adobe Systems warned users of its ColdFusion application server software that hackers are reportedly exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in the produ...

Article | 7/01/2013 Hacker finds way to run desktop applications on Windows RT

A hacker claims to have found a method of bypassing the code integrity mechanism in Windows RT, therefore allowing for desktop-style programs to be in...

Article | 4/01/2013 Rogue Google SSL certificate not used for dishonest purposes, Turktrust says

Turktrust, the Turkish certificate authority (CA) responsible for issuing an intermediate CA certificate that was later used to generate an unauthoriz...

Article | 3/01/2013 Ruby on Rails security updates address SQL injection flaw

The developers of Ruby on Rails, a popular Web application development framework for the Ruby programming language, released versions 3.2.10, 3.1.9, a...

Article | 3/01/2013 Website of US-based gas turbine maker also rigged with new IE exploit

The attackers who recently infected the website of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) with an exploit for an unpatched vulnerability in Internet E...

Article | 28/12/2012 Researchers find malware targeting Java HTTP servers

Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have uncovered a piece of backdoor-type malware that infects Java-based HTTP servers and allows...

Article | 24/12/2012 Chrome 25 will disable 'silently installed' extensions

Starting with version 25 of Google Chrome, browser extensions installed offline by other applications will not be enabled until users give their permi...

Article | 21/12/2012 Poor SCADA security will keep attackers and researchers busy in 2013

An increasing number of vulnerability researchers will focus their attention on industrial control systems (ICS) in the year to come, but so will cybe...

Article | 21/12/2012 Stabuniq malware found on servers at U.S. financial institutions

Security researchers from Symantec have identified an information-stealing Trojan program that was used to infect computer servers belonging to variou...

Article | 20/12/2012 FCC issues security guidance to smartphone users

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is advising smartphone users on how to protect their mobile devices and data from mobile security threats.