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The hacks related to Apple involve a lot of complexities. Let’s review the time line: February 1st: Twitter’s Director of Information Security, Bob Lord, posted “Keeping our users secure” on Twitter’s blog. On a Friday. The weekend of the NFL’s Super Bowl. Lord explained that Twitter had been hacked, and that 250,000 accounts have had […]

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Users may have noticed an extended shut down update process on their Windows based machines this month after Microsoft released November’s Patch Tuesday update to address a total of 19 vulnerabilities.Of the vulnerabilities fixed, four were rated as “critical” and these were located in Internet Explorer 9 (patch MS12-071) as well as “all” versions of […]

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Java SE is a platform-independent programming language. It is used on all operating systems – Windows and *nix-based, which increases the scope of exploiting a security vulnerability in Java. I will examine two critical Java security vulnerabilities exploited in the wild during the last few months.Applets in a sandboxJava applets use a sandbox, which restricts […]

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