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Here’s yet more spam with a malicious payload: Date:      Fri, 9 Feb 2012 09:46:12 +0300 From:      BlandTAINA@gmail.com Subject:      Re: FW: End of Aug. Statement Attachments:     Invoice_8W20576.htm Hi, as reqeusted I give you inovices issued to you per february (Internet Explorer format). Regards TAINA Bland “Invoice_8W20576.htm” is an HTML attachment containing some […]

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The Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player Incubator program updated their Flash Platform runtime beta program to version 5, delivered as Flash Player version 11.2.300.130. It includes a “sandboxed” version of the 32-bit Flash Player they are calling “Protected Mode for Mozilla Firefox on Windows 7 and Windows Vista systems”. It has been over a […]

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Microsoft’s January patch MS12-004 addressed a few vulnerabilities in Windows Media components. One particular issue, CVE-2012-0003, can be exploited via Windows Media Player ActiveX, as it leverages a heap overflow occurring in ‘midiOutPlayNextPolyEvent’ function within the Windows Multimedia Library, winmm.dll. The bad guys didn’t waste time and this vulnerability is now exploited in the wild […]

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