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Attackers poisoning Google Images to spread malware
Riding on the popularity of the various online services offered by Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ), scammers have resorted to a new technique: Exploiting the search functionality in Google Images to redirect
How to really know your security risks
The more precisely a risk can be assessed, the more easily it can be prioritized. However, the traditional model of assessing risk by multiplying potential loss by the likelihood of occurrence is too
Hackers put quick stop to online voting trial
The Washington, D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics last week opened a new Internet-based voting system in an open test for vulnerabilities ahead of live elections scheduled for next month. Within 36
New exploit being used against Adobe Acrobat Reader
Adobe has warned of a new exploit being used against "Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.2 and earlier versions." Reported yesterday in a terse blog on the Adobe Product Security Incident Report Team (PSIRT)
Adobe to push out new Acrobat security patches today
Hackers are using malicious PDF documents to break into Windows PCs, says Adobe. The company made the admission even as it promised to patch a newly uncovered security flaw in its popular PDF reader
Spotlight: Adobe warns of security threat
According to an announcement late last week, hackers are exploiting "critical security issues" in the company's free PDF Reader and Acrobat. The vulnerability in Adobe's software opens the door for
Virtualization: Guest-to-host attack demonstrated
By leveraging a flaw in VMware's line of virtualization software, an exploit researcher has successfully crafted a guest-to-host attack . Of equal concern is the revelation that the reverse--a
VMware bug opens the door to guest-to-host exploits
An exploit researcher at Immunity Inc. has crafted what the security community would coin a "guest-to-host" virtual machine exploit. By exploiting several vulnerabilities in VMware's virtualization
DNS flaws opens the door to an array of attacks
Security researcher Kaminsky, who first discovered the DNS exploit that had organizations around the world scrambling to patch their Domain Name Servers (DNS), spoke to a packed session at the Black
Exploit for critical DNS flaw released
Just in case you haven't heard by now, a critical flaw in the DNS protocol used to enable much of the Internet as we know has been discovered. Unfortunately, some independent research triggered an
