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The End of Vulnerabilities?
Dark Reading
And software hardening techniques, such as address space layout
randomization (ASLR) and data execution protection (DEP), have made
exploitation of vulnerabilities much more difficult. Is it possible that
exploitable vulnerabilities in the most popular ...
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Make money at home attacking Windows!
InfoWorld
Freelance coding site Gun.io (pronounced "gun-yo") will pay any programmer
that can produce an exploit for a severe vulnerability announced by
Microsoft during its regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday update. The current
bounty on the exploit has reached ...
<http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-security/make-money-home-attacking-windows-188780>
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A decade of vulnerabilities and predictions for 2012
Help Net Security
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 include software developers, vulnerability
researchers such as Secunia and the ...
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Google Wallet vulnerabilities exposed
ITWeb
By Tessa Reed, Journalist Vulnerabilities with Google Wallet were due to
questionable PIN storage techniques, says SensePost's Daniel Cuthbert. Two
separate methods to hack into Google Wallet were discovered in February.
This is according to Kaspersky ...
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A Week of Critical Patches
IT Business Edge (blog)
RDP is used for remote management by many organizations, and this will
remind people of the pcAnywhere vulnerabilities in the press recently.
MS12-020 will affect most organizations and is labeled critical because it
could result in remote code ...
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Pidgin 2.10.2 Fixes Two DoS Vulnerabilities
eSecurity Planet
"According to its developers, the maintenance and security update brings a
number of changes and addresses two denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities
that could be exploited by an attacker to cause the application to be
terminated," The H Security ...
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Ten ways your smartphone is vulnerable to hackers
Yahoo! Contributors Network
Technology industry experts agree that the world is becoming more mobile,
while at the same time, mobile technology's vulnerabilities continue to
plague consumers. To help you better lose sleep at night, The Daily Caller
compiled a list of ten ...
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Apple Safari Patch Shows Products Not Hacker Proof
CRN
By Antone Gonsalves, CRN Apple's release this week of a patch fixing a
record 83 vulnerabilities, nearly 90 percent critical, is proof the
company's products are not impenetrable. The fixes mostly involve the
open-source WebKit browser engine at the ...
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Mozilla will start Firefox silent updates in June
Computerworld
Also this week, Mozilla released Firefox 11 with patches for 12
vulnerabilities, nine of them rated "critical." For a short time, Firefox
11 faced a launch delay that would have broken Mozilla's perfect record of
meeting release deadlines since it ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225235/Mozilla_will_start_Firefox_silent_updates_in_June>
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Is Your Website Vulnerable to XSS Injections? Here's How to Protect Your
Visitors
Business Insider
Quite a bit actually, as XSS vulnerabilities are far more common that one
might imagine. No matter if you are penetration testing, web developing, or
black-hatting it somewhere in the middle, this is knowledge you want.
Finding XSS holes is the easy ...
<http://www.businessinsider.com/is-your-website-vulnerable-to-xss-injections-heres-how-to-protect-your-visitors-2012-3>
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