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Protecting yourself from CVE-2012-4681 Java exploits

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Aug

2012

As we’ve discussed in previous posts, we are seeing more malware abusing Java issues, including CVE-2012-4681. Currently this vulnerability is an 0-day, and to date there is no patch available from the vendor. It is known that JRE (Java Runtime Environment) 7 is vulnerable to attack on this sandbox-breach vulnerability, while JRE 6 is not. […]

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The Shylock “LNK” Awakening

29

Aug

2012

A new development observed in the sophisticated financial banking Trojan.Shylock highlights the ongoing evolution of this threat. Shylock, a threat first observed by Trusteer in September 2011, was named after a character in the Shakespeare play the ‘Merchant of Venice’ due to quotes from the play being found in the original binary code. Symantec has […]

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Exploitation of Java Vulnerabilities

16

Aug

2012

Java SE is a platform-independent programming language. It is used on all operating systems – Windows and *nix-based, which increases the scope of exploiting a security vulnerability in Java. I will examine two critical Java security vulnerabilities exploited in the wild during the last few months.Applets in a sandboxJava applets use a sandbox, which restricts […]

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