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The Institute for National Security Studies (Israel) falls prey to Poison Ivy infection

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May

2012

The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected that the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) website in Israel was injected with malicious code. INSS is described in its website as an independent academic institute that studies key issues relating to Israel's national security and Middle East affairs. While we can't determine that the infection of this […]

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An interesting case of Mac OSX malware

01

May

2012

In June 2009, Microsoft issued security update MS09-027, which fixed a remote code execution vulnerability in the Mac version of Microsoft Office. Despite the availability of the bulletin (and the passage of time), not every machine is up to date yet – which is how nearly three years later, malware has emerged that exploits the […]

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A Mysterious Java Exploit

03

Apr

2012

Last week Kahu Security blogged about Escalating Java Attacks. Kahu’s post dissects two Java exploits. The first exploit targets CVE-2012-0507, the latest Java vulnerability that’s been seen being exploited in the wild. This vulnerability was patched (for Windows) by Oracle in February 2012. I found the second exploit to be more interesting. It clearly appeared […]

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