Monday, May 18th, 2009
A highly dangerous SSH flaw discovered a few months ago could still cause your organisation headaches, according to security experts.
The vulnerability was first made public when it emerged last November that researchers at Royal Holloway's Information Security Group had found the flaw, which could allow hackers access to sensntive data.
SSH, ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Mark Larson, the Google Chrome Project Manager, has posted an advisory on the Google Chrome Releases blog advising of a high risk vulnerability in the Chrome web browser. The cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability is caused by an error in handling URLs in the ChromeHTML URI handler, allowing an attacker to ...
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Kernel rootkits are tough enough to detect, but now a researcher has demonstrated an even sneakier method of hacking Linux.
The attack attack exploits an oft-forgotten function in Linux versions 2.4 and above in order to quietly insert a rootkit into the operating system kernel as a way to hide malware ...
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Recently, our APAC threat intelligence team discovered a couple of Windows kernel zero-day vulnerabilities in the field, which could be potentially used for malicious purposes. These were discovered in some discussion forums in China.
One of these issues exists in Windows NT/2000/XP according to the description provided. The issue arises ...
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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
Microsoft's PowerPoint application is being used in a new attack that exploits an unpatched vulnerability in the popular Office app. The software giant yesterday issued a security alert confirming "limited and targeted attacks" were under way using malicious PowerPoint files that exploit the flaw.
The exploits carry a Trojan, according to ...
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