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CIA website brought down by DDoS attack, LulzSec hackers claim responsibility

16

Jun

2011

The CIA website at cia.gov is currently inaccessible, having apparently fallen foul of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by hackers. Almost inevitably, fingers are pointing towards the notorious LulzSec hacktivist group who have made a name for themselves recently with a series of attacks against corporations, organisations and websites – sometimes forcing them offline, and […]

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Patch Tuesday part two – Adobe patches Reader, Flash and more

15

Jun

2011

Adobe have released their latest batch of quarterly security updates covering Flash, Shockwave, Reader, Acrobat, ColdFusion, LifeCycle and Blaze. After only 9 days another zero day exploit has been fixed in Adobe Flash player. Adobe released updates for Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux today at http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer. Updates for the Android version of Flash […]

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Oracle Java 6 update 26 available now

08

Jun

2011

A little over three months since the last update to Java, Oracle has released Java 6 update 26 for Windows, Linux and Solaris. This update addresses 17 security vulnerabilities and one non-security-related bug. All 17 vulnerabilities allow remote code execution without authentication. Oracle has rated nine of the flaws as a risk of ten out […]

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