Thursday | 8 January, 2009

Stories about: iDefense

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    CEO subpoena scam fires up anew 17/04/2008 13:39:26

    After tricking several thousand executives into downloading malicious software earlier this week, online scammers started up their subpoena phishing scam again Wednesday, but on a much smaller scale.
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    Criminals hack CEOs with fake subpoenas 16/04/2008 09:50:00

    Panos Anastassiadis didn't click on the fake subpoena that popped into his inbox on Monday morning, but he runs a computer security company. Others were not so lucky.
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    Inside the black market 'bug trade' 11/04/2008 08:01:52

    The black market for software vulnerabilities is booming, with bugs regularly being sold for thousands of dollars a piece online. And one of the only ways to reduce this steady stream of hacks, according to Geekonomics author and IT security pro David Rice, is for software companies to simply write better code.
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    Symantec confirms ActiveX bugs in its own consumer software 07/04/2008 08:39:29

    Symantec has confirmed flaws in its most popular consumer security software that could give attackers the means to hijack the Windows PCs that the programs are supposed to protect.
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    Hacker Super Bowl pits Mac OS vs. Linux, Vista 28/03/2008 07:24:01

    It's the most anticipated matchup in the hacker world: Linux versus Mac OS X versus Vista. Who will get hacked first?
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    Microsoft patches a dozen bugs in Office 12/03/2008 08:26:22

    Microsoft issued four critical updates Tuesday that quashed 12 bugs in Office, the company's business suite, including a flaw in Excel that has been exploited by attackers for more than two months.
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    CEBIT - 'Mebroot' proves to be a tough rootkit to crack 05/03/2008 07:02:21

    A rootkit uncovered in the wild in December is proving to be a real headache to detect, according to Finnish security company F-Secure.
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    Critical VMware bug lets attackers zap 'real' Windows 26/02/2008 07:37:35

    A critical vulnerability in VMware's virtualization software for Windows lets attackers escape the "guest" operating system and modify or add files to the underlying "host" operating system, the company has acknowledged.
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    With racy name, bug-finder gets no credit from Microsoft 15/02/2008 12:03:36

    When a hacker going by the name Chujwamwdupe published attack code that exploited a recently patched bug in Microsoft Office 2003 earlier this week, it looked almost as if he were publishing the software out of spite.
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    Attacks aimed at Adobe Reader, Acrobat flaws intensify 12/02/2008 10:16:11

    The flaws disclosed last week in Adobe System's Reader and Acrobat programs have been used to exploit computers since at least January via malicious banner advertisements, security analysts are reporting.
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    Adobe PDF exploit infects 'many thousands,' says researcher 11/02/2008 17:18:00

    Attackers have been exploiting one of the recently-revealed vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader for at least three weeks, security researchers said today, with one estimating the infection count at "many thousands" so far.
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