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Steam Gaming Platform Vulnerable to Remote Exploits; 50 Million at Risk

More than 50 million users of the Steam gaming and media distribution platform are at risk for remote compromise because of weaknesses in the platform’s URL protocol handler, a pair of researchers at ReVuln wrote in a paper released this week.Luigi Auriemma and Donato Ferrante discovered a number of memory corruption issues, including buffer and heap overflows that would allow an attacker to abuse the way the Steam client handles browser requests. Steam runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.

HSBC Sites Knocked Offline in ‘Large Scale’ DoS Attack

Websites belonging to British bank and financial services company HSBC are back online today after reportedly experiencing a denial of service (DoS) attack. The attack, which lasted approximately 10 hours last night, was deemed a “large scale denial of service attack” by the company.

Fake Payroll Confirmation Email Leads to Black Hole Exploit Kit

Criminal hackers launched an attack campaign earlier this week in which they sent a slew of emails purporting to come from the financial software developer Intuit. The emails contained links that led to sites hosting the Blackhole exploit kit in an apparent attempt to infect the machines of corporate users.

Requesting Sensitive Data Via Google Docs: Phishing Really is That Easy

by Brian Donohue
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Please leave your credit card number, its expiration date and security code, along with your full name and billing address in the comments section of this blog post. You’re obviously not going to do this. You know better, I know better, but there are those who don’t. So many, in fact, that scammers are not only comfortable with and willing to invest in scams no more or less complicated, but they are also confident that the scams will succeed.

Citadel Trojan Updates with Dynamic Config Mechanism that Streamlines Fraud Activity

by Michael Mimoso
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The elusive authors of the Citadel Trojan have released a new version of their banking botnet malware and service. The latest version, the sixth since it debuted in January and dubbed Rain, includes a dynamic configuration mechanism that allows botmasters to inject malicious content to compromised browsers on the fly. This real-time interaction with bots avoids the need to send an updated configuration file to the entire botnet and lessens the risk of detection by security operations.

Gathering Threat Intelligence With Open Tools

by Dennis Fisher

Threat intelligence is one of the go-to buzz phrases for many people in the security industry right now, and it’s thrown in so many contexts and situations, it’s quickly becoming almost meaningless. Most people understand that they need to get better information about what’s happening both on their own networks and in the broader landscape, but few people are talking about how exactly to go about gathering that data, outside of trying to sell you a SIEM installation.

Exploit Code Released Targeting Firefox 16 Vulnerability

by Michael Mimoso

It’s been an interesting couple of days for Firefox users. First Mozilla released version 16 of the popular browser on Wednesday, then quickly pulled it back yesterday after a serious security vulnerability was found in the new version. Less than 12 hours later, Mozilla had repaired the problem and re-released the updated browser, but not before exploit code was released.

Mozilla Adds Click-to-Play Plugin Security Feature to Firefox Beta

by Dennis Fisher
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Attackers have been going after vulnerabilities in browser plugins and extensions for years now, as they know that users are slow about updating these components. Even if users have the browser set to update automatically, the third-party components are a separate issue and need to be patched on their own. With that in mind, Mozilla has added a new feature to Firefox that will, by default, block known vulnerable versions of plugins from running.

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