Malware City/News

Aug
12

'Dangerous' iPhone exploit code goes public

Filed Under: VULNERABILITIES
Attackers may grab jailbreak hacks for evil uses; patch fast, say experts

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Malware City/News

Aug
4

Anti-virus software does not make full use of Windows exploit protection features

Filed Under: SECURITY SOFTWARE
According to a blog posting by Brian Krebs, many anti-virus products do not make full use of Windows' Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) features in order to thwart attacks targeted at potential vulnerabilities.

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Malware City/News

Jan
17

Warning over using Internet Explorer from German Government as exploit goes public

Filed Under: VULNERABILITIES
On Friday, in a response to the security hole in several versions of Internet Explorer (IE), the German Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, BSI) recommended that Internet Explorer users should switch to an alternative browser until a patch for IE has been made available.

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Malware City/News

Dec
7

Critical vulnerability in Adobe Illustrator

Filed Under: VULNERABILITIES
An exploit which utilises a previously unknown vulnerability when processing crafted encapsulated postscript (.eps) files has been published for the Windows version of Adobe Illustrator.

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Malware City/News

Sep
30

Exploit published for SMB2 vulnerability in Windows

Filed Under: VULNERABILITIES
A fully functional exploit for the security vulnerability in the SMB2 protocol implementation has been published.

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Malware City/News

Mar
23

Intel CPU exploit threatens PCs worldwide

Filed Under: SECURITY ALERTS
Exploit on Intel processors has been found in a form on cache poisoning in a CPU.

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Malware City/News

Feb
11

Microsoft: 'Consistent exploit code likely’ for IE vulnerabilities

Filed Under: VULNERABILITIES
Microsoft today shipped four bulletins with patches for at least 8 documented security vulnerabilities affecting Windows users and warned that “consistent exploit code could be easily crafted” to launch attacks via the Internet Explorer browser.

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Malware City/News

Dec
12

Chinese Team Mistakenly Released Unpatched IE7 Exploit

Filed Under: VULNERABILITIES
Chinese security researchers mistakenly released the code needed to hack a PC by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 browser, potentially putting millions of computer users at risk -- but it appears some hackers already knew how to exploit the flaw.

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