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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – June 2013

Jun

2013

Hello, welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This month the vendor is releasing five bulletins covering a total of 23 vulnerabilities. Nineteen of this month’s issues are rated ‘Critical’.As always, customers are advised to follow these security best practices: Install vendor patches as soon as they are available. Run all software […]

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Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Found in Adobe Flash Player

Feb

2013

Adobe released an out-of-band update for two critical zero-day vulnerabilities just a few days in advance to its regular monthly patch cycle. The Buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2013-0633), which exists in Flash Player can lead to remote code execution or denial of service conditions when exploited. This vulnerability, which has been exploited in the wild, targets […]

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Backdoor.Barkiofork Targets Aerospace and Defense Industry

Jan

2013

A few weeks ago, we observed a spear phishing campaign targeting groups in the aerospace and defense industry. We identified at least 12 different organizations targeted in this attack. These organizations include aviation, air traffic control, and government and defense contractors. Figure 1. Spear phishing email targeting aerospace and defense industry In choosing their targets, the attackers […]

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