Mozilla is disabling older versions of the Java Deployment Toolkit plugin for Firefox users, in a bid to block attacks against a newly-discovered Java security hole that attackers have been exploiting of late to install malicious code. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
Targeted attacks might be tough to prevent, but
what if you could fight back against the attacker once he’s infiltrated
your network? A researcher has come up with a proof-of-concept (PoC)
that does just that by finding vulnerabilities in the attacker’s malware
and using it against him. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
Amazon.com administrators closed a security vulnerability
that made it possible for attackers to steal user login credentials for
the highly trafficked e-commerce website. Read the full article. [The Register]
Two Belarusian nationals suspected of operating a rent-a-fraudster
service for bank and identity thieves have been arrested overseas,
according to New York authorities, who unsealed an indictment for one of
the suspects. Read the full article. [Wired]
A week after Web hosting company Network Solutions dealt with a
large-scale infection of WordPress-driven blogs, the company
acknowledged that other sites it hosts have been compromised. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
Miscreants have created a Trojan that poses as a Google Chrome
extension. Spammed messages attempt to dupe prospective marks into trying an
add-on that “helps you better organise your documents received in your
email”. Read the full article. [The Register]
The non-profit Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has released its latest list of top 10 web application security risks. Read the release statment. [OWASP.org]
A new study from Prof. Avishai Wool of Tel Aviv University’s School of Electrical
Engineering finds serious security drawbacks in chips that are being embedded in credit, debit and “smart” cards. The
vulnerabilities of this electronic approach — and the vulnerability of
the private information contained in the chips — are becoming more
acute. Read the full article. [ScienceDaily]
The good news is that Microsoft’s Internet
Explorer 8 browser offers a new set of filters designed to prevent some
cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. The bad news is that those same
filters could be used to enable XSS attacks. That was the gist of a presentation offered by security
researchers David Lindsay and Eduardo Vela Nava at the Black Hat Europe
conference in Barcelona. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
The Zeus botnet is now using an unpatched flaw in Adobe’s PDF document
format to infect users with malicious code, said security researchers. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
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