While much has been made of recent efforts to provide parity in prosecutions and punishments for cybercrimes across the 27-nation European Union, less has been said about how it may impact security researchers who use the same hacker tools to perform their work.
Two independent researchers who’ve been warning of the threat of serious attacks against bug-riddled ICS and SCADA systems today issued an alert through ICS-CERT that vulnerabilities in ABB products could lead to DoS attacks or allow an attacker to remotely launch malicious code. No patch is expected.
Less than a day after reports began surfacing that the Flashback trojan was hitting Mac OS X machines, Apple today released a fix to stop the latest variant of the password-stealing malware. The update closes numerous vulnerabilities in Java 1.6.0_29, including a serious hole that allowed an untrusted Java applet to help spread the malicious code.
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