A researcher said a fix released by Authentec on Sept. 18 falls short of repairing a serious vulnerability in the company’s UPEK Protector Suite fingerprint reader software used as an authenticator on many new consumer and business laptops.
Cisco Systems released fixes for 15 vulnerabilities in three of its major product lines on Wednesday, including two different security appliances. The vulnerabilities would either allow an attacker to remotely execute code on a compromised machine, or execute a denial-of-service attack. Cisco said it is not aware of public exploits for any of the vulnerabilities.
Now that word is out on a serious password bug in the ubiquitous UPEK Protector Suite fingerprint readers found in most new laptops today, Apple-owned Authentec surely will be able to fix the issue on the double. Not so fast, says one of the researchers looking at the problem.
Scared is a strong word, but the reality, according to a Websense analysis by Patrik Runald, is that spear-phishers, like the ones that compromised a White House network last week, are implementing new evasion tactics, fundamentally changing their attack strategies, and revolutionizing the targeted threat model, giving business executives plenty of reason to worry.
For the second time this year, an anonymous teenage security researcher has succeeded in producing a full exploit, including a sandbox escape, against Google Chrome. The researcher, who uses the pseudonym PinkiePie, submitted his exploit Wednesday during the Pwnium contest run by Google at the Hack in the Box conference.
Microsoft rolled out seven security updates today, including a fix for a critical remotely exploitable Word vulnerability. In all, 20 vulnerabilities were repaired by Microsoft, which also issued an advisory regarding poorly generated digital certificates that have to be replaced and the distribution of an automated mechanism that will check for certificate key lengths and revoke any shorter than 1024 bits.
Adobe earlier today issued a security update for its Flash Player to seal serious security vulnerabilities that could crash and possibly allow remote control of machines with the popular media software installed.Microsoft also issued a security advisory for similar vulnerabilities that could impact users of Internet Explorer 10 as well as all supported editions of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
A flurry of fake, ad-laden Angry Birds lookalike games have flooded the Google Chrome Web store of late. The online marketplace where Google sells extensions and games for its Chrome browser has seen an influx of games mimicking “Bad Piggies,” a new game Rovio Entertainment recently released that puts a twist on its ubiquitous Angry Birds game.
A number of Wordpress themes being distributed by the developer Parallelus are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, reports said.
By Fabio AssoliniThis is the description of an attack happening in Brazil since 2011 using 1 firmware vulnerability, 2 malicious scripts and 40 malicious DNS servers, which affected 6 hardware manufacturers, resulting in millions of Brazilian internet users falling victim to a sustained and silent mass attack on DSL modems.
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