Samsung's Swift Keyboard Update Mechanism Exposes 600M Devices

The Swift keyboard, installed by default on Samsung Android mobiles, exposes devices to a host of remote attacks that could be executed by attackers ranging from criminals sitting man-in-the-middle on local Wi-Fi networks, to a state actor in an upstream position at an ISP or backbone. NowSecure...

Vulnerability alert: Flash Exposure of serious security vulnerabilities, affecting all versions of Windows System, IE and FireFox browsers-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Last week for Adobe, it should be a busy week, although the vulnerability for Adobe to say already is commonplace, but you can remotely execute malicious code, access the system control of high-risk vulnerability does not see more. Critical: remote code execution vulnerability On Tuesday, Adobe...

Microsoft will roll out fix for two critical flaws in Windows and Internet Explorer

Microsoft has released an advance notification of 9 security bulletins that it plans to release on April 9, 2013. Microsoft said it will patch nine vulnerabilities in total and two of them rated critical and that of the remaining 7 as Important. The critical vulnerabilities are remote code...

Microsoft will roll out fix for two critical flaws in Windows and Internet Explorer

Microsoft has released an advance notification of 9 security bulletins that it plans to release on April 9, 2013. Microsoft said it will patch nine vulnerabilities in total and two of them rated critical and that of the remaining 7 as Important. The critical vulnerabilities are remote code...

CFR watering hole attack also target Capstone Turbine Corporation

Last week Council on Foreign Relations website was compromised and recently hit by a drive-by attack using a zero day Internet Explorer 6 vulnerability for Cyber Espionage attack, suspected by Chinese Hackers. Later Microsoft confirmed that Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 are vulnerable to remote...

CFR watering hole attack also target Capstone Turbine Corporation

Last week Council on Foreign Relations website was compromised and recently hit by a drive-by attack using a zero day Internet Explorer 6 vulnerability for Cyber Espionage attack, suspected by Chinese Hackers. Later Microsoft confirmed that Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 are vulnerable to remote...

New Linux Rootkit Attacks Internet Users

Security researchers have discovered what appears to be an experimental Linux rootkit designed to infect its highly select victims during a classic drive-by website attack. The malware allows hackers to inject code directly in any infected web page. The new malware, discovered on November 13 of...

Go Daddy Sites Serve Up Ransomware Malware

Domain name registrar and website hosting provider Go Daddy is responding to a DNS attack targeting a "small number" of its hosted websites that one security firm said is enabling cyber criminals to spread ransomware. The DNS Domain Name System is what transfers host-names into IP addresses,...

Pwn2Own trifecta: Hacker exploits IE8, Firefox, Safari

All three major Web browsers — Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox and Apple’s Safari — failed to survive the hacker onslaught at this year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest. A security researcher named “Nils” he declined to provide his full name performed a clean drive-by download attack...