Another week, another Adobe security problem, this time in Adobe’s Download Manager. The Adobe Download Manager (DLM) used to download updates from Adobe’s site, but Aviv Raff discovered a vulnerability which would force the Download Manager to download a file of an attacker’s choosing. DLM is supposed to remove itself from [...]
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Vulnerability Roundup
February 17th, 2010
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While they were absent from last week’s roundup, Adobe has returned with advisories in 3 of their products, not surprisingly Flash and Reader, and also BlazeDS which is included in some of their server offerings. The Flash and Reader vulnerabilities share a CVE (CVE-2010-0186) which can allow an attacker to subvert [...]
Vulnerability Roundup
January 27th, 2010
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Well, it looks like all the big boys are here. Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Cisco, and ISC’s BIND all make this week’s roundup. As mentioned in last week’s roundup, Microsoft released an out-of-band update for vulnerabilities related to the attacks on Google, Adobe and others.
Speaking of Google and Adobe, Chrome 4 Stable has [...]
Escaping the clutches of The GOOG
January 21st, 2010
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We live in a world where everything and anything is just a click or web search away. Instant access to information is the new norm and seemingly taken for granted. When questions need answering, most “Just Google it.”; with that ease and convenience of using The GOOG though, comes a price…Your privacy.
Enter GoogleSharing.
On Tuesday, Moxie [...]
Hacking China Gone Wild
January 13th, 2010
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The People’s Republic of China sure has been busy making it into the headlines the past few days…
Early Tuesday morning, China’s premier internet search engine Baidu, was attacked by the group calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army. The DoS attack which took place over the night rendered the search giant’s website unavailable throughout most of [...]
SecuraBit Episode 10
September 19th, 2008
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(Apologies in advance for the short term ‘wiki’ look of these show notes, the public wiki will be up soon!)
This week Anthony Gartner, Chris Gerling, Chris Mills, Jason Mueller discuss the latest computer security news
Google Chrome
September 4th, 2008
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Google Chrome has generated a lot of press in the day since it was released on Tuesday. It gained over a 1% market share in under 24 hours. Some of
