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Developer’s Root Exploit Opens Door to Some Samsung Phones

20

Dec

2012

In the past few days, developers on the XDA-Developers forum have discovered a new root exploit for recent Samsung phones. Normally a root exploit is a good thing for advanced users; they can modify their OS to improve performance, install new and rare apps, or even patch bugs. On the other hand, novice and uninformed […]

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First fake-installer Trojan for Mac OS

12

Dec

2012

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web informs users about a new Trojan for Mac OS X dubbed Trojan.SMSSend.3666. The malicious scheme used to spread this Trojan is notorious among many Windows users but until now it hasn’t been employed to deceive owners of Macs. Trojan.SMSSend is a fake installer which can be downloaded from various sites […]

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Multiple Zero-Day POC Exploits Threaten Oracle MySQL Server

06

Dec

2012

In the last month of the year, MySQL has been flooded by a set of zero-day exploits. This set was revealed by Kingcope and he has published proof-of-concept (POCs) for all these vulnerabilities.The newly discovered set of 0-days affects MySQL in multiple ways, such as application crash/denial of service, privilege escalation, authentication bypass, remote root […]

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