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Record prizes for Pwn2Own and Pwnium contestants

The results of the first day of the traditional Pwn2Own hacking contest at the CanSecWest Conference currently taking place in Vancouver are in, and the losers are Adobe, …

Microsoft issues Fix it for critical IE 0-day exploited in attacks

Microsoft has finally issued a security advisory addressing the IE zero-day that has been recently actively exploited in attacks in the wild, and has followed with a Fix it …

Two hacker groups used same IE 0-day exploit in recent attacks

The recently spotted watering hole attacks aimed at the visitors of the official website of the US Veterans of Foreign Wars and of a bogus website mimicking that of the French …

Removing admin rights mitigates 92% of critical Microsoft vulnerabilities

Avecto analyzed data from security bulletins issued by Microsoft throughout 2013 and concluded that 92% of all vulnerabilities reported by Microsoft with a critical severity …

IE 0-day used in watering hole attack tied to previous campaigns

An Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2014-0322) is actively exploited in the wild in a watering-hole attack targeting visitors to the official website of the U.S. …

Microsoft patches critical vulnerabilities, secures IE

At first take, it looked like Microsoft would continue the 2014 trend of keeping patch Tuesday relatively light. There were only 5 advisories this month, two critical, three …

Popular Swedish news site latest link to fake AV infection

The website of popular Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet has been compromised to redirect visitors to a website sporting bogus infection warnings in order to trick them into buying …

Windows, IE, Java are most vulnerable

When compared with the numbers from the previous year, 2013 has seen an increase in reported security vulnerabilities and, what’s more, the number of critical …

IE flaw targeted in Aurora attacks still actively exploited

Regular software patching is often touted as one of the best things you can do to keep your computer safe against malware infection. Unfortunately, not all users follow that …

Configuring for security in a world of 0-days

Last month, Microsoft published two separate notices of 0-day vulnerabilities that were being used in the wild to attack Microsoft products. The first flaw is in a code …

Microsoft fixes 24 vulnerabilities

This Patch Tuesday features a solid 11 advisories affecting 6 different product types. All supported versions of Windows, Office, SharePoint, Exchange, Lync and a mixed bag of …

New IE 0-day actively exploited by Chinese attackers

After having discovered a new IE zero-day exploit being actively used in the wild, FireEye researchers have revealed that the watering hole attack is more than likely mounted …

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