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Scammers Set to Kick off UEFA EURO 2012

05

Jun

2012

Contributor: Anand Muralidharan The 14th edition of the UEFA European Championship is set to begin from June 8th and will be hosted in Poland and Ukraine. Symantec has intercepted a 419 spam attack targeting EURO 2012. Below is a screenshot of the spam mail. The scam message is attached as a PDF file called UEFA.pdf. […]

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Anatomy of a security hole – the break that broke sudo

21

May

2012

A recently-patched bug in the widely-used sudo command makes for interesting reading. The patch reminds us of some important points in security-related programming.The UNIX sudo command is usually translated to mean “do as superuser” – in other words, it lets you run administrative commands one at a time, without logging in as the superuser (root, […]

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CVE-2012-0158 Exploit in the Wild

24

Apr

2012

Since last week, we have seen many specially crafted files exploiting CVE-2012-0158, a vulnerability in MSCOMCTL.OCX in Microsoft Office and some other Microsoft products. This exploit can be implemented in a variety of file formats, including RTF, Word, and Excel files. We have already found crafted RTF and Word files in the wild. In the […]

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