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• Article | 30/08/2010 uTorrent patches application against DLL vulnerability

  The developers of the uTorrent file-sharing application have released an updated version that fixes a problem that could allow an attacker to load mal...
• Article | 26/08/2010 Adobe fixes 20 vulnerabilities in Shockwave Player

  Adobe Systems patched 20 security vulnerabilities in its Shockwave Player on Tuesday. Most of the flaws could allow an attacker to run their own code ...
• Article | 12/08/2010 Facebook bug could give spammers names, photos

  Facebook is scrambling to fix a bug in its website that could be misused by spammers to harvest user names and photographs.
• Article | 4/08/2010 Repetition breaks Google Audio CAPTCHA

  Google has fixed a flaw in its Audio CAPTCHA software that could have given scammers a way to automatically set up phoney accounts with the company's ...
• Article | 16/06/2010 Hackers exploit Windows XP zero-day, Microsoft confirms

  Hackers are now exploiting the zero-day Windows vulnerability that a Google engineer took public last week, Microsoft confirmed today.
• Article | 1/04/2010 Microsoft runs fuzzing botnet, finds 1,800 Office bugs

  Microsoft uncovered more than 1,800 bugs in Office 2010 by tapping into the unused computing horsepower of idling PCs, a company security engineer sai...
• Article | 29/03/2010 Microsoft defends Windows 7 security after Pwn2Own hacks

  Just days after a pair of researchers outwitted major Windows 7 defenses to exploit Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox, Microsoft said the measures ar...
• Article | 20/03/2010 Mozilla confirms critical Firefox bug

  Mozilla yesterday confirmed a critical vulnerability in the newest version of Firefox, and said it would plug the hole by the end of the month.
• Article | 14/03/2010 Microsoft hustles on IE patch, tests fix

  Microsoft yesterday said it is testing a patch for a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE), but stopped short of promising to deliver an em...
• Article | 11/03/2010 Hackers exploit latest IE zero-day with drive-by attacks

  Hackers are exploiting the just-disclosed unpatched bug in Internet Explorer (IE) to launch drive-by attacks from malicious Web sites, security resear...
• Article | 10/03/2010 Microsoft warns of new IE bug; attacks under way

  Microsoft today warned of a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is already being exploited by hackers, the second such admission in the l...
• Article | 4/03/2010 New exploit technique nullifies major Windows defense

  The disclosure of a new exploit technique that bypasses an important Windows security feature may result in more successful attacks against Microsoft'...
• Article | 26/02/2010 IBM: Vulnerabilities fell in 2009, but other risks abound

  The number of software vulnerabilities fell overall in 2009, but the number of bugs in document readers and multimedia applications increased by 50 pe...
• Article | 4/02/2010 Twitter forces password reset to protect some accounts

  Twitter required some users to reset their passwords on Tuesday after discovering that their log-in information may have been harvested via security-c...
• Article | 16/12/2009 Adobe warns of Reader, Acrobat attack in the wild

  Adobe is investigating new reports that hackers are attacking a previously unknown bug in the latest version of the company's Reader and Acrobat softw...