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RSA Hackers Exploited Zero-Day Flash Vulnerability

Reputed security company RSA said the intrusion incident it suffered last month was the result of a spear phishing attack leveraging a recently patched Adobe Flash vulnerability.In mid-March, RSA Security, a division of EMC Corp., admitted being the victim of an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attack which resulted ...

3 April 2011
23:57 GMT

Twitter Account Hijacking Weakness Revealed

A security researcher used a vulnerability in Twitter's Flash widget in order to demonstrate how an account on the micro-blogging platform can be hijacked. The flaw apparently stems from a rookie programming mistake, widely known since 2006."We’ve been notified about a vulnerability in our Flash widget and...

23 January 2010
07:15 GMT

Flash Vulnerability Exploited Through Excel Spreadsheets

Cybercrooks have found a new way to exploit a recently patched critical Flash vulnerability, which has been used to infect Web surfers with malware since July. The new technique involves malicious SWFs embedded into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. During the latter half of July, security researchers warned of a previo...

5 August 2009
09:18 GMT

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Critical Updates Available

Adobe has released a scheduled update for its Reader and Acrobat products in order to fix a remotely exploitable vulnerability, which is actively being targeted in attacks. The flaw allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by embedding malformed Flash streams into PDF documents. Almost a week ago, security experts...

1 August 2009
07:02 GMT


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