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Fake AICPA Mail Serves Blackholes and Rootkits

20

Feb

2012

Be wary of emails claiming to be from AICPA – as per their alert here, these are not real and any mention of “unlawful tax return fraud” is just a bait to convince the end-user to open up a malicious attachment (in this case, a .doc file although there are rogue PDF files in circulation […]

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Java Considered Harmful

22

Dec

2011

Do you need Java in your web browser? Seriously, do you? If not, get rid of it. Turns out, most users don’t need Java any more, yet people keep running it. Do not confuse Java with JavaScript: it’s hard to use the web without JavaScript. But JavaScript has nothing to do with Java. The risks […]

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A new Adobe 0-day In the Wild – – But No Worries, You are Already Protected with Our Secure Web Gateway!

08

Dec

2011

Yesterday Adobe released an advisory for a vulnerability in the Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat products. The vulnerability, titled ‘U3D Memory Corruption Vulnerability’ was part of a targeted attack and discovered by Lockheed Martin’s Computer Incident Response Team. This is not the first time a targeted attack has been aimed at the US defense industry. […]

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