vulnerability
Working exploit for MS12-020 RDP flaw found
The vulnerability in Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation (MS12-020) – a patch for which has been released by during the last Patch Tuesday …
A decade of vulnerabilities and predictions for 2012
Since 2001, Spanish security firm S21sec has been been compiling a database of vulnerabilities detected by themselves and those reported by a great number of sources which …
Microsoft adds new protection mechanisms to IE 10
At the CanSecWest conference held last week in Vancouver, a team of vulnerability researchers from French security firm VUPEN has managed to hack Microsoft’s Internet …
Microsoft patches seven distinct vulnerabilities
We have a total of six bulletins from Microsoft this month, addressing seven distinct vulnerabilities. It’s a pretty light month, but all of your focus should be on …
Multifunction printer hacking
A great number of multifunction printers of have the ability to integrate within a corporation’s business environment and connect to its email systems, its file systems, …
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 …
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