Vulnerabilities
Adobe Reader PDF patches the flaw disclosed at Black Hat
By Gina on August 20, 2010 | Vulnerabilities
As the hole in an Adobe’s Reader was disclosed at the conference of Black Hat security conference, Adobe patched the flaw at last. Today Adobe released security update to patch the hole. At July's Black Hat event in Las Vegas, Charlie Miller found out about the vulnerability where he told about how the open-source BitBlaze toolkit could boost bug-hunting productivity. He also added that the bug was in Reader's and Acrobat's font parsing. Read more.
iPhone OS is not bulletproof
By Gina on August 6, 2010 | Vulnerabilities
Developer known as “Comex” released a new jailbreak for Apple’s iPhone 4 earlier this week. By visiting an appropriate web page users are able to gain an access to the iPhone's file system, which is normally restricted, in an easier way. According to TrendLabs , in addition to the iPhone 4, older Apple products running iOS can also be jailbroken this way.The jailbreak makes an effort to use vulnerabilities in two different ways. Read more.
All your base are belong to us: how to protect your router from DNS rebinding
By Luciana on August 5, 2010 | Vulnerabilities
BlackHat and DEFCON conferences revealed many cyber security issues. In wrong hands the information can be used for phishing or clickjacking or other attacks. But since it's shared with everyone, you can learn about the possible threats and make your computer more secure.One of the most anticipated reports presented at the Black Hat was Craig Heffner's speech on the DNS rebinding vulnerability. What's the big deal about that? Read more.
Same Skype Vulnerability is Used Again
By Luciana on June 17, 2010 | Vulnerabilities
Recently a new attempt to target Skype users was found. This try is not quite new it was used earlier. It seems like cybercriminals are very confident about this exploit which takes an advantage of vulnerability in a Skype component - EasyBits Extras Manager. This vulnerability was fixed in October 2009. However, many users are still running older, vulnerable versions.This flaw is being used to flood computer with various malware. One of the malicious files is ZBOT variant, TROJ_ZBOT.COC . Read more.
Competition Among Browsers: Keep the System Secure
By Jason on March 24, 2010 | Vulnerabilities
As browsers are competing for their places at the market they have to think about their security issues too. Recently increased demand for them to provide users a safe computing experience. It is not a big news that few popular browsers were found to have huge security flaws. The most vulnerable seemed to be Internet Explorer (IE). Firefox likewise did their own headlines about protection flaws. It was enough for to prompt the German government to issue a warning against Mozilla . Read more.
