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You probably don’t live on this planet if you haven’t seen at least the trailers from these two movies. And, from curiosity, there is only one step to social engineering for the masses. Iron Man 3 and Star Trek – Into Darkness are the titles that make the news these days. It didn’t take long […]

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Microsoft spreads love to all IT administrators this month by addressing 23 vulnerabilities on the 14th of February. The software giant released nine bulletins and fixed critical flaws in Internet Explorer, an error in a runtime library which can be targeted through Windows Media Player, and flaws in the Windows kernel. Four out of the […]

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Recently I blogged about how attackers are forcing users to download fake codecs to spread malicious content. I’ve also encountered across another drive by download attack vector, which uses Java applets to execute downloaded malicious content on the victim’s machine. Download and execution of malicious content happens without user interaction. Let’s take look at a […]

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