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Zero day, Web browser vulnerabilities spike in 2014

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Mar

2015

The number of zero-day and Web browser vulnerabilities shot up in 2014, but overall software vendors are patching faster. The data comes from Secunia, a Danish security vendor that releases an annual study of trends in software vulnerabilities, which are used by hackers to compromise computers. Zero-day vulnerabilities—which are software flaws actively being used by […]

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The Dangers of a Royal Baby: Scams Abound

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Jul

2013

Big news stories are always an opportunity for scammers and spammers, who attempt to redirect users to malicious exploit kits or other unwanted services. Britain’s royal baby is the latest news to offer cover for malware. We have already found a lot of spam messages regarding the birth and baby that lead users to the […]

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New Zero-Day Attack Copies Earlier Flash Exploitation

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Jul

2013

Late on July 10, Microsoft released a blog post disclosing that they were aware of a zero-day attack in the wild. This attack exploits a previously unpatched Internet Explorer vulnerability (CVE-2013-3163). It’s interesting that the vulnerability was just patched in this month’s Patch Tuesday (July 9), which is perhaps only a coincidence. Although we do […]

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