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Watering Holes and Zero-Day Attacks

24

Oct

2012

The term “Watering Hole” has become a popular way to describe targeted malware attacks in which the attackers compromise a legitimate website and insert a “drive-by” exploit in order to compromise the website’s visitors. Two recent papers by our friends at RSA and Symantec documented such attacks.Of course, such attacks are not new. This technique […]

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Two year old PDF exploit returns to popularity

17

Oct

2012

For the last two weeks we have been noticing significant increase of PDF exploit attacks being distributed by email with an attached PDF document posing as a fake invoice.However, closer examination of the PDF file has shown that the exploit uses a two-year-old classified as CVE-2010-0188. Why would anyone use so old an exploit? Well […]

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Older Microsoft Internet Explorer Versions Are Still at Risk

10

Oct

2012

Microsoft Security Update MS12-063: Microsoft’s approach to user responsibility sees the company periodically releasing security updates to address newly identified vulnerability issues affecting users of the Internet Explorer (IE) web browser. The most recent of these is September’s Security Update MS12-063, which has been designed to permanently address a zero-day IE vulnerability. The vulnerability was […]

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