Report: Q2 Threat Evolution, the Year of the Hacktivist?

Scareware and Rogue AV are back with a vengeance in 2011, after receding in 2010 according to Kaspersky Lab’s latest threat evolution report. According to the report, the rogue AV resurgence is significant not only in scope, which was substantial, with the Kaspersky Security Network KSN detecting...

Re: Internet Explorer and Opera local zone restriction bypass

There was not a lot of details in your post, so I will try to verify and clarify your findings. First things first, this is not a problem with Microsofts Internet Explorer, but with Macromedia and their Flash player. I could reproduce this issue successfully with a fresh install of the latest Fla...

CVE-2002-0477

Standalone Macromedia Flash Player 5.0 before 5,0,30,2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a .SWF file containing the "exec" FSCommand...