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Android clickjacking rootkit attack is more mischievous than malicious at
the ...
Computerworld (blog)
Security researchers have created a proof-of-concept clickjacking rootkit
for Android and it will even work on the Ice Cream Sandwich platform.
Unlike other rootkits, the demo only shows it hijacking apps, but it works
without restarting the Android ...
<http://blogs.computerworld.com/malware-and-vulnerabilities/20639/android-clickjacking-rootkit-attack-hijack-apps>
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Barclays chief Bob Diamond's embrace of US-style pay and bonus culture ...
Economic Times
Many shareholders were offended by these compensation levels, as well as
Diamond's practice of deploying significant financial resources to riskier
areas of the bank.
<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/barclays-chief-bob-diamonds-embrace-of-us-style-pay-and-bonus-culture-became-his-main-vulnerability/articleshow/14667461.cms>
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Researchers Use Cloud To Clear Up Malware Evasion
Dark Reading
The survey of evasion techniques will be presented by Rodrigo Branco,
director of vulnerability and malware research for security firm Qualys, at
the Black Hat security conference this month. Qualys researchers expect to
have 9.5 million malicious and ...
<http://www.darkreading.com/advanced-threats/167901091/security/vulnerabilities/240003165/researchers-use-cloud-to-clear-up-malware-evasion.html>
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BlackHole toolkit targets Microsoft XML flaw
SC Magazine Australia
The newly added malicious payload in BlackHole -- a crimeware application
that exploit vulnerabilities to install malware -- targets a recently
disclosed zero-day flaw in the service. The defect (CVE-2012-1889) allowed
remote attackers to execute ...
<http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/307410,blackhole-toolkit-targets-microsoft-xml-flaw.aspx>
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MSXML Exploit Surfaces in Black Hole Kit
Threatpost (blog)
The CVE-2012-1889 vulnerability in the MSXML component in Internet Explorer
has been in use by attackers for several weeks now in various scenarios.
The first attacks were using malicious Office documents as the delivery
mechanism for the exploit code, ...
<http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/msxml-exploit-surfaces-black-hole-kit-070312>
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Phishing attacks on the decline: Paladion
Oman Daily Observer
Overall, while threats are getting more financially motivated and targeted
on applications, organizations have lower level of monitoring and higher
vulnerabilities on application level which also stay open for much longer
compared to network level." ...
<http://main.omanobserver.om/node/101550>
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Microsoft's Security Information Report shows lax practices allow
malware ...
Network World
Microsoft cites research that shows 92 percent of Conficker infections were
a result of weak or stolen passwords, and 8 percent of infections exploited
vulnerabilities for which a security update exists. "Conficker is one of
the biggest security ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/80963>
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