We wrote several times that when Oracle fixed quickly the security holes in Java, it did not have enough time to address the source of the problem. This can be now seen more clear after big names in the IT industry like Microsoft, Apple and Facebook felt victims to Java exploits. Microsoft communicated yesterday in […]
Symantec has recently encountered a threat named Trojan.Stabuniq. This Trojan was found on several servers belonging to financial institutions, including banking firms and credit unions. The Trojan has also compromised home computer users, as well as computers at security firms: Figure 1. Trojan.Stabuniq distribution by type Approximately half of unique IP addresses found with Trojan.Stabuniq belong to […]
This month brings some interesting updates from the Microsoft central security team’s regular notification service for December 11 2012. The Microsoft Security Bulletin Notification for December 2012 contains seven bulletins; with five of then listed as “critical” and two ranking as “important” overall. In Bulletin 1 we see a risk of “remote code execution” affecting […]
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