2 hours ago by Donald Sears

Nullsoft has released version 5.57 of Winamp, the popular media player, closing several critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited to compromise a user's system and fixing a number of bugs. Read the full article. [The H Security] Shorten URL: http://threatpost.com/en_us/ihI. Click to copy to c ...

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2 hours ago by Donald Sears

Adobe chose to wait until mid-January to patch a critical PDF bug because issuing an emergency update would have disrupted its quarterly security update schedule, the company said today. Read the full article. [Computerworld] Shorten URL: http://threatpost.com/en_us/ihK. Click to copy to clipboard o ...

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6 hours ago by Donald Sears

The PHP developers have released version 5.2.12 of their popular programming language, fixing over 60 bugs mainly to increase stability, but also closing some security holes. Read the full article. [The H Security] Shorten URL: http://threatpost.com/en_us/iS6. Click to copy to clipboard or post to T ...

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1 day ago by Security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet

Cisco WebEx WRF Player vulnerable to six code execution vulnerabilities. by Ryan Naraine

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1 day ago by Donald Sears

Version 2.1 of the Cloud Security Alliance's “Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing” provides more concise and actionable guidance across all domains, and encompasses knowledge gained from real world deployments over the past six months. Read the full article. [Help Net Security] S ...

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1 day ago by Donald Sears

A Chinese court Wednesday sentenced 11 members of a malware ring for writing and distributing Trojan horse viruses meant to steal online game account passwords, according to state media. Read the full article. [IDG News Service] Shorten URL: http://threatpost.com/en_us/izH. Click to copy to clipboar ...

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2 days ago by Ryan Naraine

Cisco today released a security update with patches for a half-dozen serious security flaws in its WebEx Recording Format (WRF) Player. The vulnerabilites vulnerabilities may lead to a crash of the WRF Player application, or in some cases, lead to remote code execution, the company warned. Read the ...

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2 days ago by Ryan Naraine

Here's a quick update to the Adobe PDF Reader/Acrobat zero-day story that broke yesterday after the company confirmed that an unpatched vulnerabilities was being attacked in the wild. First up, an exploit has been fitted into the Metasploit point-and-click penetration testing tool and there are pred ...

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2 days ago by Security News items, Blog posts | ZDNet

The most serious issue could lead to remote code execution attacks. In other scenarios, the bugs could cause denial-of-service or URL spoofing attacks. by Ryan Naraine

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2 days ago by Donald Sears

ISPs in Russia and Ukraine are home to some of the highest concentrations of customers whose machines are infected with the Conficker worm, shows data from the Shadowserver Foundation. Read the full article. [Washington Post] Shorten URL: http://threatpost.com/en_us/ieQ. Click to copy to clipboard o ...

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