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TrueType but not Truly Safe: The New Zero-Day Event

08

Nov

2011

A new vulnerability in Windows, CVE -2011-3402, has been recently identified and is already exploited in the wild. For now, only a handful of targeted attacks have been found. The vulnerability exists in Windows TrueType Font Parsing Engine and affects most Windows versions, including Windows 7. An attack involves a file which has a maliciously […]

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Duqu Status Update #1

21

Oct

2011

As mentioned in our previous blog, W32.Duqu was first brought to our attention by a research lab who had been investigating a targeted attack on another organization. This research was conducted by the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS) in the Department of Telecommunications, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. CrySyS identified the infection […]

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Kevin Mitnick – ghost in the wires, or scourge of the internet?

07

Oct

2011

My previous book reviews on Naked Security have covered books which I enjoyed greatly, and which were somehow relevant to the field of computer security. One was a novel dealing with advance fee fraud in Nigeria; the other a historical record of Second World War cryptography in the UK. I wrote those reviews because I […]

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