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IE 9 hacked at Pwn2Own, Google patches Chrome bugs

After the success they had with attacking Google’s Chrome browser, the team of vulnerability researchers from French firm VUPEN has also managed to hack …

Microsoft to release 6 bulletins on Patch Tuesday

The Microsoft Security Bulletin Advanced Notification for March 2012 covers six bulletins which include one critical, four important, and one moderate. Bulletin 1 is labeled …

Chrome already pwned twice at CanSecWest

The annual CanSecWest conference opened on Wednesday in Vancouver, and before the first session even started, Google’s Chrome was exploited successfully not once, but …

Researchers compromise e-voting system

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan has recently attacked and managed to compromise the Washington, DC Digital Vote by Mail Internet voting system, proving …

Researchers break video CAPTCHAs, offer solutions

After creating the “Decaptcha” software to solve audio CAPTCHAs, Standford University’s researchers modified it and turned it against text and, quite …

Open source tool detects videoconferencing equipment vulnerabilities

Videoconferencing equipment has been in the news recently for its potential for use by attackers to snoop on confidential company meetings, view charts mounted on meeting room …

Horde FTP server hacked, files modified to include backdoor

The developers of the Horde open source software have issued a statement warning its users that a one of their FTP servers was discovered to have been breached and some files …

Gap in patch priorities vs cybercriminal targets

Internet users are at risk from the rapid growth in software security flaws – specifically end-point vulnerabilities. Businesses should be doing far more to help …

Satellite telephony encryption cracked

Satellite telephony was thought to be secure against eavesdropping. Researchers at the Horst G?¶rtz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) have …

PoC exploits for Linux privilege escalation bug published

The publication of proof-of-concept exploit code for a recently spotted privilege escalation flaw (CVE-2012-0056 ) in the Linux kernel has left Linux vendors scrambling to …

Symantec advises customers to stop using pcAnywhere

In a perhaps not wholly unexpected move, Symantec has advised the customers of its pcAnywhere remote control application to stop using it until patches for a slew of …

Critical flaws in Symantec’s pcAnywhere patched

After having been notified by Symantec about the theft of the software’s old source code and the increased security risk that incident entails for them, users of the …

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