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New zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in Flash Player

16

Dec

2011

What has been found?Two new vulnerabilities in Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash Player have been discovered and allegedly can be used to an arbitrary code execution remotely. Essentially these vulnerabilities could allow someone to remotely seize control of a PC without the consent of the owner.Who discovered these exploits? The exploits were discovered by a Russian vulnerability research […]

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Poison and EyeStye, by the numbers

02

Nov

2011

The latest MSRT release included coverage for two more malware families, one being Win32/EyeStye, which we discussed earlier this month, and the other being Win32/Poison. In tandem with our efforts to provide an antidote to the scourge of Win32/Poison infections via the MSRT, we’ve also today published a detailed MMPC Threat Report on the same […]

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Sweden is under attack – mass infection and new exploits!

19

Oct

2011

Web based threats such as malicious links on social medias, infected websites and malicious ads are terms that we read about quite often. We security experts have for quite some time tried to emphasize the importance of protecting both your website and computer from being infected, since these malicious websites often exploit client vulnerabilities. These […]

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