Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Secure64, which specializes in products designed to support the domain name system (DNS), has released the product to help prevent a condition in which the server's local list of domain name mappings is corrupted. Attackers create this condition by pretending to be another DNS server responding to a DNS query.
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Adobe Systems Inc. said Monday it is investigating reports that attackers are exploiting a previously unidentified security hole in its Acrobat and PDF Reader software to break into vulnerable computers.The acknowledgment coincided with an alert published by the Shadowserver Foundation, a nonprofit group that tracks the spread of malicious programs ...
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
Trusteer warned the customers of website hosting companies, including yahoo.com, against a new phishing attack aimed at stealing their content management system log-in credentials. The e-mails appear to be from a website hosting firm and ask website owners to confirm their cPanel/FTP account information. Using this information, criminals are uploading ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
For the security-conscious, those shortened URLs on Twitter can be unnerving. After all, where is that shortened URL really taking you? This summer, security vendors documented how spammers and phishers were exploiting URL shortening services to try to trick users into visiting sketchy sites. On Monday, one URL shortening service ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Vulnerability assessment vendor Rapid7 has announced the first of a series of steps to integrate its penetration testing and vulnerability assessment scanning products. The first step is a module that allows users of the Metasploit Framework, which Rapid7 acquired in October to natively import NeXpose scanner results and then take ...
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