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Jul
2011

There’s a lot of talk about targeted attacks against defense contractors. These attacks are still continuing. We found this sample last week (md5: f393f34f268ddff34521d136e5555752). It’s a PDF file, apparently sent to an employee of the target company as an email attachment. When opened in Adobe Reader, it exploits a known Javascript vulnerability and drops a […]

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Pentesters need to drop files on targets. If a box is not connected to the Internet, and doesn’t accept removable storage, they need to come up with some tricks. Inputting the file via the keyboard is an option, but typing several millions of bytes is not. This needs automation. Irongeek uses a Teensy micro-controller to […]

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Jailbreakme.com version 3 went public yesterday and offers, again, a simple way to jailbreak an iOS device. And it's very, very simple. In fact, in our testing the jailbreak doesn't take more than 20 seconds from start to finish and works flawlessly. It doesn't crash your browser, and it even looks and feels like a […]

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