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Security Vulnerability in MySQL

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Jun

2012

A serious security vulnerability discovered in MySQL was disclosed this weekend. It basically allows anyone to bypass authentication and login directly into the database. We tried on a few 64bit Ubuntu systems and were able to replicate the issue (it seems that only 64 bit platforms are affected). Crazy theory: Could this be related to […]

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Q1 Threats Go Mobile

17

Apr

2012

Following the so-called “Year of Data Breaches,” the first quarter of 2012 veered away from attacks that led to data loss and, instead, focused on mobility. The mobile threat incidents we’ve seen in the first quarter remained true to one of 2012 predictions-Android-based smartphones will continue to be a likely target for cybercrime. Trend Micro, […]

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Blackhole, CVE-2012-0507 and Carberp

30

Mar

2012

This week Blackhole has been updated to version 1.2.3 and includes a new exploit for the Java CVE-2012-0507 vulnerability, which ESET calls Java/ Exploit.CVE-2012-0507. Earlier this week information was published about the Blackhole update by French malware researcher Xylitol and last week Microsoft shared information about an interesting way of breaching the JRE (Java Runtime […]

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