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Libyan Leader Muammar Gadhafi’s Death Spam

24

Oct

2011

Threat Analysis: Alan Neville As word spreads of the death of Muammar Gadhafi, cybercriminals are starting to take advantage. We are already seeing spam campaigns related to his death with malicious attachments. Here are a couple of examples of what we have seen so far. This particular campaign claims that Muammar Gadahfi’s death may not […]

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TimThumb.php Vulnerability Not Only Affecting Themes – Plugins too (vslider)

17

Aug

2011

The Timthumb.php vulnerability is being used in the wild to hack and infect thousands of WordPress sites. Hopefully everyone is checking their themes and updating the script to make sure it is not vulnerable. This is wishful thinking. Unfortunately, the issue is not limited to themes alone. There are some plugins that include the TimThumb.php […]

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Timthumb.php Security Vulnerability – Just the Tip of the Iceberg

03

Aug

2011

There has been some buzz about a zero day vulnerability found in Timthumb.php that can allow for arbitrary file uploads. Although this is a platform independent issue, it is specially an issue on WordPress where a lot of theme authors choose to include scripts in themes without any extra security measures. You can read more […]

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