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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 25th, 2009
  • Comments: 12

Adobe Fixes Critical Shockwave Vulnerability

Adobe has issues a security patch for their Adobe Shockwave software program that fixes on vulnerability that has been rated critical. The vulnerability gives attackers, who can attack systems remotely, control over affected computer systems. The interesting aspect of the issued patch is that Adobe recommends to completely uninstall Adobe Shockwave 11.5.0.596 or earlier on [...]

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Categories: Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 13th, 2009
  • Comments: None

Microsoft Security Bulletin May 2009

Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin for May 2009 which contains one Microsoft Office PowerPoint vulnerability which affects various editions of Microsoft Office but also the Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. Affected are Microsoft Office PowerPoint editions in Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007. The security [...]

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Categories: Security, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 3rd, 2008
  • Comments: 21

Google Chrome Security Vulnerability

Now this did not take long. Only one day after releasing a first public beta version of Google Chrome researchers at Kaspersky discovered (Thanks Neil for sending the tip) a security vulnerability that combines a security flaw in Webkit, the browser engine used by Google Chrome, with a Java bug. Apple fixed the vulnerability in [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 8th, 2008
  • Comments: 12

Game Over For Windows Vista’s Security?

I picked up an interesting story over at Neowin entitled “Vista’s Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit” which reports on a new technique hat can “bypass all memory protection safeguards that Microsoft built into Windows Vista.”
The researchers were able to load whatever content they wanted into any location they wished on a user’s machine [...]

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Categories: Security, Windows

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