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Adobe libtiff exploitation
On Monday, we reported that Secunia had discovered that one of the recent Adobe Reader vulnerabilities was actually related to an old vulnerability in libtiff. Secunia had developed an exploit but kept it private. Now, there are reports that others have succeeded in constructing exploits for this issue as [...]

Posted on February 26, 2010 at 8:25 AM by root · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Security News

Microsoft Announces out of cycle Security Update schedule
Microsoft issued their Advanced Notification Service (ANS) notification to inform customers of the impending release of MS10-002 on January 21st, 2010. The update will be cumulative, in advance of the normal February release Cycle, and is intended to protect customers from the known, widely publicized attacks associated with [...]

Posted on January 21, 2010 at 12:13 PM by root · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Adobe and Social Networks

According the the McAfee predictions report, Adobe will be a larger target for hackers than Microsoft. So keep your adobe products updated. No matter how annoying they are. You know what we’re talking about.
Also, beware when social networking. Sites such as Twitter, MySpace and Facebook will be a very large target for hackers. If you [...]

Posted on January 6, 2010 at 7:20 PM by root · Permalink · Leave a comment
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