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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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Exploits posing as messages from payroll company ADP

08

Aug

2012

A malware campaign has targeted organizations with fake emails from payroll service companies such as ADP. The Internet Storm Center (ISC) is reporting that for the past few weeks, crooks have been disguising malicious email under the guise of multiple payroll management service companies. ADP is a prominent example. On its security alerts page, ADP […]

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The rise of a new Java vulnerability – CVE-2012-1723

02

Aug

2012

Last month, we saw a new Java vulnerability (CVE-2012-1723) being used by malware. This new Java vulnerability is a type-confusion, same as the notorious CVE-2012-0507 AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability. The vulnerability was resolved on June 12th by Oracle and a discussion on the vulnerability was made public on June 13th (though some security updates had appeared in […]

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