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Styx Exploit Kit Takes Advantage of Vulnerabilities

Jun

2013

Web-based malware has increased over the last few years due to an abrupt spike in new exploit kits. These kits target vulnerabilities in popular applications and provide an effective way for cybercriminals to distribute malware. We have already discussed Red Kit, a common exploit kit. Recently McAfee Labs has observed an increase in the prevalence […]

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How to enable two-factor authentication for Twitter

May

2013

Not a week passes without seeing in the press that some Twitter account have been hacked (as in used without authorization). Twitter tried to create more awareness about creating secure passwords and educating the users to not fall for the classical social engineering techniques. But, with over 200 million users, it is close to impossible […]

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2013 First Quarter Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Apr

2013

In the first quarter of 2013, we spotted quite a few zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Oracle Java, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, and Microsoft Internet Explorer being exploited in the wild. This blog discusses the details of these zero-days exploited to spread malware in the first quarter of 2013. Java zero-day vulnerabilitiesDuring the month of January 2013, we […]

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