Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Google Alert - vulnerabilities

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Windows Phone 7.5 SMS Vulnerability Can Disable Messaging
PCWorld
By Daniel Ionescu, PCWorld Dec 13, 2011 5:41 AM Windows Phone 7 devices are susceptible to an SMS vulnerability that could lock users out of their messaging functions. The discovery comes from a tipster at the WinRumors blog, who demonstrated that a ...
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Indusface Launches IndusGuard 40 for Web Security Management
Siliconindia.com
Indusface's flagship product IndusGuard, a zero touch, non intrusive cloud based software provides daily monitoring which secures and safeguards websites, checks for systems and application vulnerabilities, and malware. ...
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Winamp mends terrible trio of old-school security holes
Register
The rather old-school vulnerabilities involve a brace of integer overflow cockups in the in_avi.dll plug-in and a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the in_mod.dll plug-in library. All three flaws create a means to inject hostile code into ...
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Google-funded Study Found Chrome to be Safest Browser
Tom's Hardware Guide
Other than previous studies by the firm, which often focused on quantitative comparisons such as the number of vulnerabilities affecting a browser, Accuvant took a different approach and investigated the "anti-exploitation" features included in a ...
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DNA Hackers: Synthetic biology weaponized virus, 0day exploit to infect your ...
Computerworld (blog)
Think of it as a patch you need to close a vulnerability on a system. In this case, you would download it, print it, and swallow the "cure." You will be able to search for a flu or cold vaccine and then print out the genetic designs or download the ...
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Parliament panel rejects government proposal to hike FDI cap in insurance
Economic Times
"Increased role of foreign capital may lead to the possibility of exposing the economy to the vulnerabilities of the global market,...flight of capital outside the country and also endangering the interest of the policy holders," it said. ...
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Do WebKit exploits escalate risk of Web browser attacks?
SearchSecurity.com
A large number of security vulnerabilities were recently discovered in the WebKit browser and JavaScript engines, enabling WebKit exploits. If anyone using a browser based on WebKit was tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could ...
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Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs Reveals 2012 Threat Predictions
MarketWatch (press release)
Groups such as Anonymous have already found an assortment of Web-based vulnerabilities simply by picking targets and scouring code. In 2012, FortiGuard predicts new SCADA vulnerabilities will be discovered and exploited with potentially devastating ...
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