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• Urgent: Microsoft out-of-band security update for Internet Explorer

  I don’t post on vulnerabilities often, but this Internet Explorer vulnerability is particularly bad and needs your attention. Do you use Internet Explorer? If yes, I highly recommend patching your system NOW. Microsoft released an urgent security update... Posted Dec 18 2008, 08:30 PM by Benjamin Googins with | with 1 comment(s) Tags: 960714, internet explorer, Microsoft, MS08-078, out-of-band, remote code execution, security update, Vulnerabilities, vulnerability

• Yet Another Exploited PDF in the Wild

  As mentioned in my previous post Prevalence of Exploited PDFs , over the past months CA ISBU has seen consistent, recurring attacks on malware explicitly designed to exploit PDF vulnerabilities – this mainly involves the ' Collab.collectEmailInfo... Posted Nov 10 2008, 10:24 PM by Methusela Cebrian Ferrer with | with no comments Tags: adobe, adobe acrobat, adobe reader, CVE-2008-2992, malware, PDF attacks, PDF exploit, Vulnerabilities

• Reshipping scam: a new cyber-criminal trend?

  Are you looking for a new job? What about getting $2000 monthly working at home? You just only need to follow some of our directions and a good compensation is waiting for you… Attractive job? Yes probably, but what is behind it? It seems cyber-criminals... Posted Oct 22 2008, 05:31 AM by Rossano Ferraris with | with 2 comment(s) Tags: antispam, anti-spam, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, CA, CA Anti-Spam, cyber crime, phishing, rossano, Rossano Ferraris, spam, Vulnerabilities, vulnerability

• Compromised websites: a real danger for Internet users

  It seems Internet users do not have any peace anymore. We have witnessed a lot of security issues on the Internet to date but never like this latest period, which can be named -to my personal perspective- as “the age of compromised websites”. The Anti... Posted May 28 2008, 12:23 PM by Rossano Ferraris with | with 2 comment(s) Tags: Anti-Spyware, attack, CA, internet, Rossano Ferraris, security, spyware, Vulnerabilities, vulnerability

• PayPal Closes a Phishing Vulnerability

  Take a close look at this image. You can click to enlarge it. It looks like the PayPal login page, but some things are off. For one, the title is "Login - PayPal Phishing Proof of Concept". That is because this isn't the PayPal login page... Posted Feb 17 2008, 10:44 AM by Stefan Berteau with | with 8 comment(s) Tags: jsp, paypal, phishing, Vulnerabilities, vulnerability