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Windows Phone 7.5 susceptible to SMS hack

14

Dec

2011

Phones running Microsoft’s newly released Windows Phone 7.5 mobile operating system are vulnerable to having their text messaging service’s knees kicked off in a denial of service attack. The flaw is simple as pie to exploit: An attacker simply sends an SMS to a Windows Phone user. According to WinRumors’s tests, Windows Phone 7.5 devices […]

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Win32/Flooder.Ramagedos botnet participating in DDoS related to elections in Russia

12

Dec

2011

Russia has been in the news for the last week, with thousands of protesters taking to the street to protest against alleged irregularities in the elections held on December 4th. There are also multiple reports of attempts to silence protesters on the Internet, such as DDoS attacks against websites used by the political opposition, the use […]

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Brief analysis of the Adobe vulnerability

09

Dec

2011

We have published the Security Advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat informing the users about the vulnerability found in the Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader which is currently actively exploited. The vulnerability in the U3D component allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unknown vectors, as […]

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