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Are Apple iOS, Os X Flaws Really Backdoors for Spies?

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Feb

2014

Network World – San Francisco — Two recently-discovered flaws in Apple iOS and Mac OS X have security experts openly asking whether the software vulnerabilities represent backdoors inserted for purposes of cyber-espionage.

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Compromised Auto-Update Mechanism Affects South Korean Users

26

Jun

2013

On Tuesday, South Korea raised the country’s cyber security alarm from level 1 to 3, because of several incidents that affected different government and news websites in South Korea. One of the several attacks related to the June 25 security incident involved the compromise of the auto-update mechanism related to the legitimate installer file SimDisk.exe, […]

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Microsoft Updates May 2013 – Slew of Internet Explorer Critical Vulnerabilities, Kernel EoP, and Others

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May

2013

Microsoft released a long list of updates for Microsoft software today. The most interesting appear to be those patching Internet Explorer and the kernel software vulnerabilities. In all, ten critical “use-after-free” vulnerabilities are patched in IE along with one important Information Disclosure vulnerability, and three elevation of privilege vulnerabilities are being patched as well. Almost […]

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