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Fedora 15 : python-feedparser-5.0.1-1.fc15 (2011-4988)
Current release: 5.0.1 - February 20, 2011 - Fix issue 91 invalid text in XML declaration causes sanitizer to crash - Fix issue 254 sanitization can be bypassed by malformed XML comments - Fix issue 255 sanitizer doesn't strip unsafe URI schemes Previous release: 5.0 - January 25, 2011 - Improved...
How Phishers Will Use Epsilon Data Against You
By B.K. DeLong There has been a lot of online venting and hand-wringing in the week since customers of email services provider Epsilon began informing millions of individuals in North America and Europe that their name and e-mail address had been stolen in a massive data breach. In the week since...
Expert: Three Quarters of Employees Duped by Phishing Scams
In the wake of the data breach at e-mail marketing firm Epsilon, the specter looms of widespread phishing attacks on hundreds of millions of e-mail users whose information was stolen from the firm. But according to Aaron Higbee, the Chief Technology Officer at Intrepidus Group, organizations had...
Children, the New Hot Commodity in the Business of Identity Theft?
Evidently the kids are not alright. At least, that is when it comes to the increasingly lucrative identity theft black market. A study carried out by a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University’s Cylab found that as many as 10 percent were victims of identity theft – even years before they are old...
Online dating sites targeted by hackers during Valentine !
Consumers are urged to be aware of fake online profiles, which may be used to gain the trust of online users looking love to scam them out of money. Using singles and dating websites, scam artists are pretending to be people looking for relationships. They often steal photos from social networkin...
Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2011-0035 Uninitialized Memory Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Successful exploits will allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the user running the application. Failed attacks will cause denial-of-service conditions. Technologies Affected Avaya Aura...
Microsoft Office PICT Image Converter (CVE-2010-3946) Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Office is prone to a remote integer-overflow vulnerability because the software fails to perform adequate boundary-checks on user-supplied data. An attacker can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user into opening an Office document that contains a specially...
Malicious URLs Pose Mobile Hijacking Risk
The security of mobile devices may be at risk for Web borne attacks because of loose policies for processing URLs Uniform Resource Locators, according to a report by security researcher Nitesh Dhajani. Writing on the SANS Application Security Blog, Dhanjani said that that way the iPhone’s operati...
Microsoft Excel Formula Substream (CVE-2010-3234) Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Excel is prone to a memory corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to open a specially crafted Excel file. Successful exploits can allow attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the...
Microsoft Internet Explorer Uninitialized Memory Word Document Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Successful exploits will allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the user running the application. Failed attacks will cause denial-of-service conditions. The following versions of the...
Microsoft Windows OpenType Font (OTF) Format Driver CVE-2010-2741 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. Attackers may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with kernel-level privileges. Successfully exploiting this issue will result in the complete compromise of affected computers. Failed exploit attempts...
Microsoft Internet Explorer Uninitialized Memory CVE-2010-3326 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Successful exploits will allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the user running the application. Failed attacks will cause denial-of-service conditions. Technologies Affected Avaya Aura...
Microsoft Word (CVE-2010-3217) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Word is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to open a specially crafted Word file. Successful exploits can allow attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the...
Microsoft Internet Explorer Uninitialized Memory CVE-2010-3328 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Successful exploits will allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the user running the application. Failed attacks will cause denial-of-service conditions. Technologies Affected Avaya Aura...
Microsoft Internet Explorer 'OnPropertyChange_Src()' Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Successful exploits will allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the user running the application. Failed attacks will cause denial-of-service conditions. Technologies Affected Avaya Aura...
Microsoft XML Core Service Msxml2.XMLHTTP.3.0 Response Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description Microsoft XML Core Service is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to view a malicious webpage. Successful exploits will allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code within the context of the currently...
Microsoft Silverlight ActiveX Control Pointer Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Silverlight ActiveX control is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to view a malicious webpage. Successful exploits will allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code within the context of the...
Microsoft Silverlight & .NET Framework CLR Virtual Method Delegate Code Execution Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft .NET Framework are prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Successful exploits will allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code within the context of the application. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in a denial-of-service...
Microsoft Internet Explorer 'boundElements' Use-After-Free Error Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Successful exploits will allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the user running the application. Failed attacks will cause denial-of-service conditions. Technologies Affected Avaya Aura...
MDVA-2010:023 : kde4-style-iaora
The last iaora update introduced a litlle regression in some IaOra color schemes, like Iaora-Gray, this new package is correcting this. Also in iaora, the application's name in the titlebar wasn't correctly centered. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associat...