At the beginning of May, we reported that a number of Indian ISP started blocking their subscribers from accessing BitTorrent sites, and even Vimeo, just before the launch of a Bollywood motion picture. Many were discontent with the decision, but one of these individuals decided to do something about it. After seein... |
15 May 2012
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Security experts discovered that the newly released version of Yahoo Messenger and some of its predecessors contain a vulnerability that allows an attacker to take over the status of an unsuspecting user, replacing it with his own malicious links. Bitdefender researchers claim that the attack begins when a cybercrim... |
2 December 2011
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Organizations worldwide began reporting their DNS servers that relied on BIND keep crashing while the nameservers were performing recursive queries. The Internet System Consortium (ICS) claims that multiple versions were affected by an unidentified network event. Sophos names it a “denial of service vulnerabil... |
17 November 2011
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Microsoft is hard at work to patch a zero-day security vulnerability that was confirmed to play a key role in recent attacks involving the Duqu malicious code. Believed to be related to Stuxnet, Duqu infects machines by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in the Windows kernel. The new piece of malware w... |
2 November 2011
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Zero-day vulnerabilities accounted only for an insignificant volume of infections in the first half of 2011, Microsoft revealed in the Security Intelligence Report volume 11 (SIRv11).
The report took in consideration only top malware families detected by the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) between January ... |
12 October 2011
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The PrestaShop developers are warning users that hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the e-commerce solution and is urging them to deploy a fix.The vulnerability was identified when PrestaShop's own website was hacked on Tuesday, an event that put the development team in full alert."Last night, th... |
25 August 2011
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At the start of the year reports suggested that Intel is working on developing a hardware based antivirus that would come embedded in some of their products, but now McAfee's CEO David DeWalt has dismissed these claims as it stated that Intel won't add antiviral programs to its silicon.The company represent... |
28 April 2011
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Ever since computers have become mainstream, viruses and other types of malicious code have been wreaking havoc through the systems of unwary users everywhere, but all that may soon end as Intel has started developing a new technology that will protect users against “zero-day” attacks.Traditional antiviru... |
26 January 2011
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Mozilla confirmed the existence of an actively targeted critical vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 and recommends the NoScript add-on as mitigation until a permanent fix is ready.The vulnerability was exploited in a drive-by download attack launched from the Nobel Peace Prize website, which was reported yesterday ... |
27 October 2010
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Microsoft has officially confirmed attacks targeting a Critical 0-day vulnerability affecting various releases of Office Excel. According to the Redmond company the vulnerability is actively being exploited in the wild, and a patch is in the works, although no security update is available as of yet to resolve the fla... |
25 February 2009
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Both Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 in its current phase of development, namely Beta 1, are vulnerable to a critical zero-day security flaw with proof-of-concept code available in the wild. The Cross-Zone Scripting vulnerability in the browser's "Print Table of Links" feature was discovered by indep... |
21 May 2008
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Word on the web is that the exploit Charlie Miller used to "pwn and own" Apple's MacBook Air at CanSecWest last month had actually been acknowledged and publicly revealed almost a year before the contest.NetworkWorld is reporting that security researcher Chris Evans said in an email interview that he found the b... |
22 April 2008
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Microsoft will have nothing to do with any form of online vulnerabilities bazaar. This is true not only for security flaws affecting the company's latest operating system but all its products. The reason why Microsoft will not get involved into the commerce with security vulnerabilities is because it finds an eq... |
10 July 2007
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Get your hands on a Windows Vista zero-day and you have struck pure gold. No more and no less. This is because of the nature of zero-days vulnerabilities. David McKinney, a member of the Symantec Response Center had a tough time when it came to track and observe the evolution of zero-day vulnerabilities. "A zero-day ... |
2 April 2007
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