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News of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s Death Leads to Malware

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May

2012

The demise of Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch (also known by his moniker MCA) have resonated among hip hop fans these past days. Sadly, we have seen a particular attack that targets specific recipients and used this news item as a social engineering lure. We have found an email sample that leverages Yauch’s death to entice […]

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Targeted Attacks Using Confusion (CVE-2012-0779)

05

May

2012

Adobe today issued a security bulletin for a vulnerability in Flash Player, which is currently being used in limited targeted attacks. The targeted attacks leveraging the Adobe Flash Player CVE-2012-0779 Object Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0779) have been in the wild for over a week. The vector of infection, as in most targeted […]

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Patch Tuesday April 2012 – Patching Multiple Web Based Client Side and Spearphishing Exposures

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Apr

2012

This month’s patch Tuesday fixes a small set of critical vulnerabilities in a variety of client side software and one “important” server side Forefront UAG data leakage/information disclosure issue. Six bulletins have been created to address eleven exploitable flaws. Three of the six bulletins are top priority and should be addressed ASAP. These are the […]

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