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McAfee Labs Detects Zero-Day Exploit Targeting Microsoft Office

Last Thursday morning (October 31), our Advanced Exploit Detection System (AEDS), which we discussed in an earlier post, detected a suspicious sample targeting Microsoft Office. After

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Top 5 malware that kept researchers up at night

Which malicious code would be most frightening if sinister pieces of malware could rise from the dead on Halloween? Well, malware researchers spend all their

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MongoHQ Hacked

This goes to show that application dev is not necessarily the biggest risk.  Information Security isn’t tied to any single domain of IT or business.

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Phishing With Linkedin’s Intro

In the everchanging landscape of social media, the latest ‘features’ can often be the newest vulnerabilities.  Social engineering techniques have become very sophisticated, and can

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PHP source code compromised?

Source: http://barracudalabs.com/2013/10/php-net-compromise/  It was announced that the PHP website was hacked and serving malware.  If the attackers had access to their internal servers, can we

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VERIS Community Database (VCDB)

VERIS as described by it’s creators: “One of the most critical and persistent challenges plaguing efforts to manage information risk is a lack of data.

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Microsof October Security Bulletin

This summary includes 4 critical and 4 important vulnerabilities. Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-oct

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Microsoft September Security Bulletin

This bulletin listed 4 critical and 9 important vulnerabilities. Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-sep