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If it weren’t enough finding themselves (rather unfairly in my point of view) in the firing line regarding how the BlackBerry Messaging service (BBM) was being used by British riotors, with calls for the service to be suspended, RIM now finds itself with a different kind of BlackBerry image problem. RIM, the firm behind the […]

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Bilocating technology blogger Mark Maunder – he claims to live in Seattle and Cape Town concurrently, though I suspect he means consecutively, and I’ll wager he wisely avoids winter in both of them – recently wrote about an intrusion to his WordPress site. It turns out the backdoor was a previously-unexploited, or at least a […]

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2011

There’s a lot of talk about targeted attacks against defense contractors. These attacks are still continuing. We found this sample last week (md5: f393f34f268ddff34521d136e5555752). It’s a PDF file, apparently sent to an employee of the target company as an email attachment. When opened in Adobe Reader, it exploits a known Javascript vulnerability and drops a […]

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