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Updates and Mitigation to Microsoft Office Zero-Day Threat (CVE-2013-3906)
On November 5, Microsoft posted Security Advisory 2896666. This vulnerability, discovered by Haifei Li of McAfee Labs, affects multiple...Nov 06, 2013 | 2 MIN READ
Executive Perspectives
Operation Troy: OpenIOC Release
In conjunction with our investigation into Operation Troy, we will be releasing IOC data in the...Jul 12, 2013 | < 1 MIN READ
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Phishing Threat Uses UTF-8 BOM in ZIP Signature to Evade Detection
This blog was written by Sanchit Karve. Last week, we noticed thousands of malware files in the...Apr 08, 2013 | 3 MIN READ
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Digging Into the Sandbox-Escape Technique of the Recent PDF Exploit
As promised in our previous blog entry for the recent Adobe Reader PDF zero-day attack, we now...Feb 20, 2013 | 6 MIN READ
Executive Perspectives
RDP+RCE=Bad News (MS12-020)
See March 15 and 16 updates at the end of this blog. —————————————————- The March Security...Mar 14, 2012 | 4 MIN READ
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Guide To Online Banking Safety for Confident Consumers
A recent poll revealed that 54% of U.S. consumers said the theft of their personal or financial...Aug 02, 2011 | 17 MIN READ
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LizaMoon the Latest SQL-Injection Attack
Working in the security industry brings about a myriad of challenges. This is especially true for vendors....Apr 04, 2011 | 3 MIN READ
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Remote Jackpot: Hacking ATMs
Isn’t it just everybody’s dream: to walk up to an ATM, swipe your card, get a flashy...Jul 28, 2010 | 3 MIN READ