Thursday, June 14th, 2012
The Flame cyber-attack that targeted computers across the Middle East has been linked to the Stuxnet worm, which is believed to have been orchestrated by the US and Israel to attack Iranian nuclear centres.
Speaking at the Reuters Global Media and Technology Summit on 11 June, Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive of ...
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
Exploits for a recently revealed MySQL authentication bypass flaw are now in the wild, partly because the flaw is remarkably simple to exploit in order to gain root access to the database. The only mitigating factor appears to be that it depends on the C library that the MySQL database ...
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Monday, June 11th, 2012
Here is a great analysis of the MD5 collision in Flame by Alex Sotirov.
https://trailofbits.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/flame-md5.pdf
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Friday, June 8th, 2012
Today, Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has seen a barrage of malicious emails pretending to be automated notifications from Craigslist. These emails instruct the recipient to click a link to complete a Craigslist request. The URLs in these emails redirect the user to malicious web sites hosting Blackhole Exploit Kit. So far we have ...
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Friday, June 8th, 2012
A list with several million passwords belonging to users of the music community site Last.fm has been posted on the internet. The site owners have posted a statement saying that the company is investigating the leak and that all users of the service should change their passwords immediately. This is ...
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