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Phony Adobe Plug-in Malware Bypassess Craigslist Spam Controls 27 Aug 2013 | 01:09 am
An attacker is going to a lot of trouble to post spam messages to Craigslist. Researchers at Solera Networks have come across an attack where malware is using compromised machines to post poorly word...
Phone Hack Could Block Messages, Calls on Some Mobile Networks 27 Aug 2013 | 12:43 am
By tweaking the firmware on certain kinds of phones, a hacker could make it so other phones in the area are unable to receive incoming calls or SMS messages, according to research presented at the USE...
Service Restored to .cn Domain After Large DDoS Attack 26 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
Long fingered as the source of denial-of-service attacks and other hacks against foreign interests, China’s .cn domain was targeted on Sunday and approximately one-third of the sites registered to tha...
Pinterest Closes Hole That Allowed Anyone to View Users’ Email Addresses 26 Aug 2013 | 06:37 pm
A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in Pinterest, the rapidly growing social network, that enables an attacker who knows a target’s username or user ID to discover that user’s email a...
Norwich University Receives $9.9M for Cybersecurity Research 23 Aug 2013 | 11:08 pm
Norwich University, a small military college nestled in the Green Mountains of Vermont, secured another round of funding for cybersecurity research this week. The grant, $9.9 million in federal funds,...
Mozilla Plug-N-Hack Integrates Browsers and Security Tools 23 Aug 2013 | 11:01 pm
The Mozilla security team is developing a new proposed standard that will make it easier for researchers to integrate some of their tools with Firefox and other browsers. The standard, known as Plug-n...
With No Facebook Bounty Coming, Researcher Gets $12k Reward From Security Community 23 Aug 2013 | 06:57 pm
Like most major Web and software companies, Facebook receives a lot of bug reports. And since the company started its bug bounty program, security researchers have become even more interested in looki...
VMware Patches Root Privilege-Escalation Flaw 23 Aug 2013 | 05:07 pm
VMware has fixed a privilege-escalation flaw in two of its major products that could allow a local attacker to gain root privileges on a vulnerable machine. The bug affects VMware Workstation and Play...
Google, Mozilla Considering Limiting Certificate Validity to 60 Months 23 Aug 2013 | 12:10 am
In the wake of a parade of problems with certificate authorities and attackers using stolen digital certificates, both Google and Mozilla are poised to enforce new rules in their browsers for how long...
Cisco Patches DoS, Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in UCM 22 Aug 2013 | 11:47 pm
Cisco has again pushed out an update for its Unified Communications Manager product, fixing several vulnerabilities that if left unpatched could lead to a denial of service attack, allow attackers to ...
