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Adobe September 2011 Patch Release

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Sep

2011

In addition to today’s Microsoft updates, users of Adobe’s Reader and Acrobat software on both Windows and Apple systems need to update their software ASAP. Adobe released Bulletin APSB11-24, addressing at least thirteen memory corruption flaws, and several privilege escalation, logic flaw, and bypass issues. In today’s earlier post about Microsoft’s patched vulnerabilities, Excel was […]

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First malware using Android Gingerbreak root exploit

23

Aug

2011

It did not take too long after I found out about the discovery of Gingermaster, the first Android malware to use the Gingerbreak exploit, to acquire a sample which was still available from a Chinese alternative Android Marketplace. The package I downloaded uses the following permissions: android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE android.permission.READ_LOGS android.permission.DELETE_CACHE_FILES android.permission.ACCESS_CACHE_FILESYSTEM android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.MOUNT_UNMOUNT_FILESYSTEMS […]

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Brazilian spambot spreads like fire

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May

2011

A legitimate Canadian website is hosting a Trojan: www.getwiththeprogram.ca/IMG2713.zip The zip archive contains a file with a .cpl extension. Control Panel Files are normally used by the Windows Control Panel where each icon corresponds to a file, such as Access.cpl, Appwiz.cpl etc. Anyway, what a lot of people don’t know is that such files can […]

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