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Pretty Dangerous Format The Rising Trend of PDF Attacks
Pretty Dangerous Format The Rising Trend of PDF Attacks Malicious hackers use the PDF file format’s extended features against users by modifying PDF files in order use them as attack tools that exploit vulnerabilities in the Adobe products that read the files. No Title According to Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report, researchers at the company…
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Clickjacking at Top Websites Beaten By Researchers
Four researchers from Stanford and Carnegie Mellon outlined how frame busting, a protection meant to defeat clickjacking, can be circumvented on Twitter and other popular sites. The term clickjacking was first used in 2008 by WhiteHat Security CTO Jeremiah Grossman and Robert “RSnake” Hansen, CEO of SecTheory. In order to combat the attack, websites instituted…
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Failure to Patch
Failure to Patch One of the number one reasons hackers are so successful today is that they are able to prey upon systems with known vulnerabilities. Partners do a great disservice to customers when they don’t patch in a timely fashion. Misconfiguring Systems Partners should always harden customer systems with good configurations that follow the…
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The Great VeriSign Garage Sale 10 Big VeriSign Sell Offs and Spin Offs
The Great VeriSign Garage Sale 10 Big VeriSign Sell Offs and Spin Offs Buyer: SymantecBusiness Unit: Security business including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate Services, the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Services, the VeriSign Trust Services and the VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service, plus a stake in VeriSign Japan.Price: $1.28 billionDate: May 2010Symantec views this…
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Tabnapping Technique Makes Phishing Easy
New security research is shining a light on an attack technique that can be used to trick users into entering their personal information on phishing sites. Raskin’s proof-of-concept attack takes advantage of users who keep multiple tabs open. If the user visits a malicious site or one that has been compromised, the attacker can silently…
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1.3 Million Malicious Online Ads Viewed Daily
The company, which helps ad networks and publishers deal with the issue, collected the data from its telemetry system. Dasient estimated approximately 1.3 million malicious advertisements are viewed on the Web daily. According to the company, the average malicious ad lives on the Web for more than a week. READ MORE >>
