Security researchers warn that the number of attacks exploiting a flaw in a popular WordPress script continues to increase and started leading to malware.Timthumb is an image manipulation script incorporated by default in many popular WordPress themes. This means that even if it's not a part of the platform'... |
16 August 2011
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According to research from vulnerability management company Secunia, a lot of popular applications fail to make use of the defenses implemented in Windows. Applications like Java, Adobe Reader, Mozilla Firefox have broken, incomplete or missing DEP and ASLR support. DEP (Data Execution Prevention) is a security ... |
2 July 2010
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CORESecurity recently discovered and quietly informed Pidgin developers of a security vulnerability inside the main Pidgin core library that would have permitted third parties to remotely execute malware on a computer. Through the latest releases of the Pidgin instant messaging software, the vulnerability was success... |
19 August 2009
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Adobe has confirmed a critical vulnerability affecting the latest version of its Flash Player product, after reports of it being exploited in the wild surfaced. The zero-day flaw can be exploited by tricking users into viewing a maliciously crafted .swf file or opening PDF documents with malicious Flash streams embed... |
23 July 2009
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Several vulnerability research organizations have reported a remote stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the newly released Firefox 3.5.1 version. Mozilla dismisses claims that this bug can be exploited to compromise computers and says that its impact is only limited to a denial of service condition. Just a day be... |
20 July 2009
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Several serious vulnerabilities affecting the Adobe Reader alternative, developed by Foxit Software, have been recently disclosed. Security professionals now warn that proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for one of the more critical ones has also been made available and could be used in future attacks. On 9 March, F... |
13 March 2009
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Researchers from the Finnish security vendor F-Secure, estimate that at least one million computers have been infected by the Conficker worm in a single day. Their worldwide infections count now reads 3,521,230, while other security professionals blame the companies and home users for failing to install the critical ... |
16 January 2009
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