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Flash in Windows 8: the good, the bad and the ugly

08

Dec

2012

Last week I described how Chrome and Firefox are protecting users against vulnerable plugins, Flash and Java amongst them, with Click to Play. Microsoft has a different approach with Windows 8 when it comes to protecting users against attack using the Flash plugin. Embedded Flash Player Windows 8 ships with its own version of Flash. […]

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High-profile, legitimate site contains malware

04

Sep

2012

Not only users visiting high-risk sites need avast! protection, but also, for example, visitors of the well-known site samsungimaging.net (the Samsung SMART CAMERA blog) were able to notice that their avast! protected them from a threat. Yesterday, on this site AVAST began to detect malicious Java content. The malicious file was called Gondvv.class, which is […]

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Fake ‘Amazon order’ email exploits recent Java vulnerability CVE 2012-4681

03

Sep

2012

Following our recent blog posts regarding the propagation of Java vulnerability CVE-2012-4681 (New Java 0-day used in small number of attacks) and its subsequent inclusion in the infamous Blackhole Exploit Kit (New Java 0-day added to Blackhole Exploit Kit), the Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected a new malicious email campaign purporting to be an order […]

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