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Mozilla releases Firefox 16.0.1 to address four vulnerabilities
PCWorld
Mozilla pulled down Firefox 16 from its website on Wednesday, one day after
its release, because of a vulnerability that potentially allowed malicious
Web pages to read the URLs of other websites accessed by visiting users.
Such behavior should ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/article/2011686/mozilla-releases-firefox-1601-to-address-four-vulnerabilities.html>
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Application vulnerability disclosures rise, Microsoft finds
TechTarget
Application vulnerabilities are on the rise in 2012 after a steady decline
over the past few years and an automated attack toolkit is behind many of
the exploits targeting the coding errors, according to the latest threat
report issued by Microsoft ...
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/2240165183/Application-vulnerability-disclosures-rise-Microsoft-finds>
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Cisco Patches a Rash of Buffer Overflow and DoS Vulnerabilities
Threatpost (blog)
Cisco Systems released fixes for 15 vulnerabilities in three of its major
product lines on Wednesday, including two different security appliances.
The vulnerabilities would either allow an attacker to remotely execute code
on a compromised machine, or ...
<http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/cisco-patches-rash-buffer-overflow-and-dos-vulnerabilities-101112>
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Windows 7 Malware Spikes 182 Percent: Increased Vulnerabilities Or Market?
CRN
With application vulnerabilities accounting for over 70% of all
vulnerability disclosures according to the report, it's not surprising to
see two more systems out of 1,000 being cleaned for malware. This
re-emphasizes the importance of keeping software ...
<http://www.crn.com/news/security/240008944/windows-7-malware-spikes-182-percent-increased-vulnerabilities-or-market.htm>
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Firefox 16.0.1 Ready After Serious Vulnerability Forced Mozilla to
Suspend ...
Threatpost (blog)
Mozilla announced it has re-released Firefox 16 after suspending downloads
of the latest version of the Firefox browser because of a serious security
vulnerability. Firefox 16 was initially released yesterday but was quickly
pulled back, Mozilla ...
<http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/firefox-1601-ready-after-serious-vulnerability-forced-mozilla-suspend-availability-101112>
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Popular RATs Found Riddled With Bugs, Weak Crypto
Dark Reading
A pair of interns for Matasano Security recently published their findings
of vulnerabilities they discovered while reverse-engineering popular RATs,
specifically DarkComet, Bandook, CyberGate, and Xtreme RAT. Shawn Denbow of
Rensselaer Polytechnic ...
<http://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/167901121/security/vulnerabilities/240008942/popular-rats-found-riddled-with-bugs-weak-crypto.html>
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Researchers discover vulnerabilities that allow mobile phone users to be ...
HealthCanal.com
New privacy threats have been discovered by University of Birmingham
researchers which allow the physical presence of mobile phones operating on
3G networks to be tracked by third parties. This research will be presented
at the ACM conference on ...
<http://www.healthcanal.com/public-health-safety/32886-Researchers-discover-vulnerabilities-that-allow-mobile-phone-users-tracked-friends-and-enemies.html>
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Tulsa city websites being rebuilt after hacking scare
Tulsa World
Restoration of the city's websites after a hacking scare last month is
going slowly because of reprogramming efforts to reduce vulnerabilities,
the City Council was told Thursday. "We didn't want to stand (the site) up
again as we had it," said Police ...
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Mozilla Suspends Firefox 16 Downloads: Serious Bug
InformationWeek (blog)
According to vulnerability information provider Secunia, Firefox 15.x
contains numerous "highly critical" vulnerabilities that could allow an
attacker to remotely bypass the browser's security controls, execute a
cross-site scripting attack, spoof ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/security/application-security/mozilla-suspends-firefox-16-downloads-se/240008899>
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