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IE Zero-Day Fixit Tool available
Published September 20, 2012
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it would be issuing an out-of-band patch on Friday, in response to the latest zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability discovered this past weekend. For those users concerned about waiting, Microsoft released a FixIt tool on Wednesday that will temporarily neutralize the threat. Microsoft “FixIt” tools, are automated solutions that can diagnoses and repair problems on end user machines. There are several FixIt tools available, that can fix a wide…Read more
New IE Zero-Day vulnerability discovered.
Published September 18, 2012
Security researcher Eric Romang has discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which he claims will affect fully patched versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 8 and 9. The exploits, developed over the weekend for the Metasploit exploit toolkit, have been linked to Nitro, the same group of hackers from China who were exploiting two Java zero-days in late August. “Since Microsoft has not released a patch for this vulnerability yet, Internet users are strongly advised to…Read more
SPAM!!!
Published September 10, 2012
A funny video about one of the most annoying things ever…SPAM!!! Read more
Disable Java…NOW!!!
Published September 04, 2012
Unfortunately, it appears that Java is once again unsafe. Over the weekend, the good folks over at security firm FireEye spotted a new attack that exploits a vulnerability in Java to install a Trojan named Poison Ivy, which communicates with C&C servers in China and Singapore. Since there’s no fix in sight, it is highly recommended that users turn off/disable Java in their browsers. This might keep certain websites from operating 100% but, it will help prevent possible “drive-by…Read more
Java SE 7 Update 7 and SE Update 35 released
Published August 30, 2012
The folks at Oracle have released updates for Java, versions 1.7.0_07 and 1.6.0_3. Oracle strongly recommends that all Java SE 7 users upgrade to this release. You can download the installers from here. Researchers who’ve been investigating the exploit for the new Java CVE-1012-4681 vulnerability found that there were actually two previously unknown security bugs in Java 7 and that the exploit has been traced back to attackers in China. News of the Java vulnerability started to circulate on…Read more