Posts Tagged ‘trickery’

edocinU edirrevO tfeL ot thgiR gnisU erawlaM (Malware Using Right to Left Override Unicode)

Aug

2011

According to our friends at Commtouch, malware using Right to Left Override (RLO) Unicode tricks have “resurfaced extensively in the past week”. Unicode character (U+202E) “reverses” text for languages that are traditionally read from right to left, and it’s a feature that can be used to obfuscate file names.We examined a sample a few days […]

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Firefox 6 is out – several critical security fixes and one cool new featurette!

Aug

2011

Firefox 6 is out. This is the second under Firefox’s new ‘single-line railway track with regular stations’ development and release regimen. Like last time, when Version 5 came out on the mid-year solstice, the official release appeared spot on target: 17 August on the Eastern side of the world, and 16 August in Mozilla’s timezone. […]

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Many WordPress blogs at risk from image-based zero-day vulnerability

Aug

2011

Bilocating technology blogger Mark Maunder – he claims to live in Seattle and Cape Town concurrently, though I suspect he means consecutively, and I’ll wager he wisely avoids winter in both of them – recently wrote about an intrusion to his WordPress site. It turns out the backdoor was a previously-unexploited, or at least a […]

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