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WordPress And Other CMS Platforms Give Attackers Room For Creativity
Dark Reading
CMS platforms, such as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal, have quickly gained
steam as an attack vector of choice by attackers who can perpetrate
thousands of attacks at once by finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in
these platforms.
<http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability/wordpress-and-other-cms-platforms-give-a/240158293>
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Zero-day exploit in Apple's iOS operating system "sold for $500000″
Graham Cluley Security News
These bughunters don't find security vulnerabilities in order to report
them to the software vendors and perhaps claim a bounty, but instead sell
them to governments prepared to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for
the right exploit. The truth is ...
<http://grahamcluley.com/2013/07/zero-day-ios-exploit/>
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Over-the-air alerts for emergencies are vulnerable to hacking
Washington Times
"The vulnerabilities we found allow a hacker to get full control," said
Gunter Ollmann, chief technology officer of IOActive, a computer security
firm. "With that control, you could send out your own emergency alerts,
or even pre-empt the signal from ...
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/15/over-the-air-alerts-for-emergencies-are-vulnerable/>
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Countries Pay Hackers Big Money To Find Rival Flaws
RedOrbit
The hackers in question are looking for vulnerabilities in software like
Microsoft's Windows, which could act as a gateway for warring cyber
soldiers to gain access to larger networks. Whereas these hackers may have
previously sold these weaknesses to ...
<http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1112897572/hackers-hired-by-countries-find-flaws-rivals-071513/>
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African Development Bank Group in North Africa in 2013 Promoting
Resilience ...
BusinessGhana
The report argues that a country's structural vulnerabilities can, in the
absence of a strong adaptive capacity, produce nurtured vulnerabilities
which render an economy susceptible to the impacts of crises. While
analyzing how the recent crises are ...
<http://www.businessghana.com/portal/news/index.php?op=getNews&news_cat_id=&id=186997>
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Security patching
San Diego Source (subscription)
A service patch is a piece of computer code that is added to an executable
program to fix a bug or vulnerability. Sometimes these bugs aren't realized
until after the program is released. It's these vulnerabilities that put
the unpatched systems at risk.
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iPhone Security Flaws Selling for $500000
IBTimes.co.uk
Thanks to the pervasive nature of the iPhone and its high levels of
security, vulnerabilities in it are much more highly prized than those
found in other software such as Android or Windows. Attractive proposition.
A flaw in iOS would potentially allow ...
<http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/490338/20130715/iphone-security-flaw-selling-500000-nsa-snowden.htm>
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Governments are Big Buyers of Zero-Day Flaws
Infosecurity Magazine (US)
A new and critical vulnerability in Adobe's Flash player has been revealed
and, says Mila Parkour, a security researcher, the flaw is exploitable via
malicious SWF content embedded in what appears to be a standard PDF file.
Zero Day of the Dead The ...
<http://www.infosecurity-us.com/view/33441/governments-are-big-buyers-of-zeroday-flaws/>
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