We’re presented with another situation in which security solutions providers fail to protect their public assets, leaving them vulnerable for cyberattacks. The official site of Norman (norman.com), a proactive content security solutions and forensics malware tools provider, and the Polish variant of Avast&rsquo... |
19 December 2011
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Team Elite has published a proof of concept to show a cross-site scripting (XSS) and an iframe injection flaw in Kaspersky’s Polish product store (softbuy.pl/kaspersky/store). It seems that the product purchase page contains some weaknesses which could allow a hacker to execute arbitrary code. It’s... |
18 December 2011
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The product checkout page of ArcaBit’s Polish website presented vulnerabilities that could have allowed a hacker to execute a maliciously crafted arbitrary code.
Team Elite reports that two years ago the website had the same weaknesses, but after a redesign process, the site became once again vulnerable to cro... |
28 November 2011
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The official website belonging to the Information and Communications Ministry of Nepal was discovered as presenting two major vulnerabilities that could allow a hacker to run a piece of arbitrary code. Team Elite, the ones that discovered the cross-site scripting and iframe injection flaws, already notified the inst... |
28 November 2011
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A computer science student from Stanford University discovered a flaw in Adobe Flash that would allow a website administrator to remotely and silently turn on a visitor’s webcam and microphone.According to Feross Aboukhadijeh, the trick works on in all the versions of Flash in most Mac browsers. Windows and Lin... |
20 October 2011
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Making the web fast is becoming less a matter of network speeds or even browser performance, optimizing the websites themselves provides the best results most of the times. Google is obsessed with speed, but this obsession is a good thing, it means that its websites are light and load fast. But there's always m... |
17 March 2011
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Apple has released a new software update for Mac owners and users of its iLife suite of applications – iMovie 8.0.5. The new version delivers compatibility enhancements with a series of devices, addresses a few bugs, and, most importantly, introduces a new, Apple-designed video format – iFrame. On the Su... |
14 October 2009
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A new attack has been detected on the Internet, no less than 9,000 websites being already affected by an exploit codenamed "Silent Love China". SiliconRepublic.com writes that the infection attempts to inject some sort of malicious code into popular websites and steal usernames and passwords belonging to visitors. Si... |
21 May 2008
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Security company McAfee has warned of a new mass web-based attacks preying on the Windows operating system. The first attack was initially discovered on March 12 and it involved SQL injection. Craig Schmugar, threat research manager, McAfee Avert Labs, revealed that initially McAfee detected in excess of 10,000 compr... |
14 March 2008
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A few days ago, security researchers around the world spotted a new avalanche of IFrame attacks that revealed a pretty new hack technique: the users are redirected to several pages until they reach a 'deadly' final one which attempts to deploy the infection. Today, security researcher Dancho Danchev has pub... |
14 March 2008
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Browsers are among the top exploited software products, as they provide the bridge between the users' machine and the Internet. And being one of the main vectors for attacks and exploits makes bulletproofing browsers a critical task in terms of delivering user protection. Microsoft's proprietary Internet Ex... |
21 January 2008
09:04 GMT |
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Yet another web attack targeting the visitors of a very popular website and the vulnerabilities discovered on their computers. This time, the affected page is a New York Jets fansite, which obviously has a lot of visitors every day. Just like the past attacks, the website has been compromised with an embedded Iframe ... |
7 January 2008
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Well, what do you know? Everyone's been praising the Chinese hackers to be amongst the best in the world, as of late, but it seems that the Chinese Internet Security Response Team (CISRT for short) has been under attack from another group of hackers. Their site has been a victim of IFRAME attacks, which is not s... |
3 October 2007
03:36 GMT |
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Sophos, one of the world leaders in IT security, has announced the most prevalent malware threats that are causing problems for computer users during May 2007 according to their studies. The conclusion is that infected web pages are still posing a threat and are affecting all kinds of sites, official government websi... |
2 June 2007
08:42 GMT |
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