18 months' porridge for banking malware-spreader
A Brit who distributed a Trojan horse that posed as a patch for popular shoot-em-up game Call of Duty has been jailed for 18 months.…
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Call of Duty hacker jailed after meatspace burglary
Friday, May 18th, 2012Security updates for Safari and OS X Lion products
Monday, May 14th, 2012Apple released Safari 5.1.7 addressing multiple cross-site scripting, remote code execution, crashes and other vulnerabilities. Also notable is the automatic deactivation of Adobe Flash Player if it is older than 10.1.102.64 by moving its files to a new directory. This update presents the option to install an updated version of Flash Player from the Adobe website.
Safari 5.1.7 is available via the Apple Software Update application, or Apple’s Safari download site at: http://www.apple.com/safari/download/.
OS X Lion v10.7.4 and Security Update 2012-002 is now available and addresses a multitude of vulnerabilities. For more information visit the dedicated Apple KB article.
OS X Lion v10.7.4 and Security Update 2012-002 may be obtained from the Software Update pane in System Preferences, or Apple’s Software Downloads web site: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/. The Software Update utility will present the update that applies to your system configuration. Only one is needed, either Security Update 2012-002 or OS X v10.7.4.
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Adobe backs down, will patch old software for free
Monday, May 14th, 2012
Following Adobe's recent release of Creative Suite 6 and its statement that it will not be patching critical security vulnerabilities in previous versions of the popular software the suite includes, s...
Adobe Backpedals, Will Now Patch Software for Free
Saturday, May 12th, 2012
After being pummeled by customers and security experts for telling users to spend hundreds of dollars on upgrades because it wasn't going to patch critical bugs in older versions of its software, Adobe has reversed course.
Apple Security Update Blocks Old Flash Versions
Thursday, May 10th, 2012Apple released security updates yesterday that fix various vulnerabilities in Mac OS X and the Safari browser.
Important Apple security updates for Snow Leopard and Lion – get ‘em today!
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Hot on the heels of the iOS 5.1.1 release, Apple has pumped out a raft of security updates for Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) and Lion (OS X 10.7) users.
Many vulnerabilities have been fixed, and Safari gets a really cool new safety feature. Find out more.
PHP devs lob second patch at super-critical CGI bug
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012If at first you don't succeed, compile, compile again
The developers of PHP have released updates to thwart fresh attacks against systems that use the scripting language to dynamically generate web pages.…
Microsoft Ships Seven Bulletins Fixing 23 Bugs
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Microsoft released seven bulletins fixing 23 vulnerabilities in their patch Tuesday announcement today. The Redmond, Wash., software giant rated three of the bulletins as ‘critical,’ all of which could lead to remote code execution, and the remaining four as ‘important.’
PHP Group Releases New Versions, But Patch Doesn’t Fix CVE-2012-1823 Bug
Friday, May 4th, 2012UPDATE--The developers of PHP have released new versions of the scripting language to fix a remotely exploitable vulnerability announced earlier this week that enables an attacker to pass command-line arguments to the PHP binary. The flaw has been in the code for more than eight years and The PHP Group was working on a patch for it when the bug was disclosed accidentally on Reddit. However, the team that found the bug says the new versions of PHP don't actually fix the vulnerability.
Adobe Patches New Flash Zero-day Bug with Emergency Update
Friday, May 4th, 2012
Adobe today warned that hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in its popular Flash Player program, and issued an emergency update to patch the bug.
