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New iPhone Safari Exploit Crashes iPhone

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2008-03-19 14:54:00 by -Administration- in iPhone nano - Apple iPhone Articles
...exploit which locks up your iPhone by simply visiting a malicious page The exploit which did affect Safari for both iPhone and PC was just patched in the Safari 3.1 update yesterday. It has not been fixed for the iPhone or iPod yet The exploit uses a webpage to run malicious code which freezes your iPhone causing you to loose any open and...
 
Tags: iphone, exploit, safari, firmware, itouch firmware, malicious code, firmware versions, affect safari, malicious page
 
 
 
 
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New SQL Injection Attacks Exploit Adobe Flash Flaw

2008-05-29 01:52:16 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 
...exploiting an Adobe Flash vulnerability that appears to be coming from the same series of attacks originating from China The intent, as in previous attacks, has been to steal online gamers password credentials. But given the persistence and scope of the attacks over the past few months, researchers worry that World of Warcraft players and...
 
Tags: linux stand-alone player, player, flash player version, attacks, flash player, sql injection attacks, appears, attack appears, nefarious swf files
 
 
 
 
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Security researcher publishes exploit toolkit

2008-07-29 15:40:47 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 
...exploit toolkit targeting the update mechanisms of Java, Mac OS X, OpenOffice.org and other software, and relying on man-in-the-middle techniques such as those made possible by the recently disclosed DNS security hole The toolkit, ISR-Evilgrade 1.0, was released by Francisco Amato, a researcher with Infobyte Security Research. The initial...
 
Tags: toolkit, researcher, security exploit toolkit, dns security hole, hole, toolkit implements structures, dns security, amato, amato notes
 
 
 
 
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Zero Day Exploit For QuickTimeFlaw

2008-01-11 11:00:48 by BoB Rudis in The Apple Blog
 
...exploit for a zero-day vulnerabilityin QuickTime 7.3.1 that impacts both OS X and Windows versions of the software. This exploit will allow an attacker to execute malicious code on the target system The researcher, Luigi Auriemma, describes the exploit as being based on a flaw in QuickTimes parsing of HTTP error messages and has not provided...
 
Tags: protocol, rtsp protocol handler, protocol handler, rtsp, exploit, disable, disable quicktime, apple, code
 
 
 
 
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More information on recent Flash Player exploit

2008-05-29 16:28:26 by David Lenoe in Adobe Blogs
 
...exploits in the wild that may help answer some of the questions weve been seeing This is not a zero-day exploit. Despite various reports that have been circulating, the Flash Player Standalone 9.0.124.0 and Linux Player 9.0.124.0 are NOT vulnerable to the exploits discussed in conjunction with the previously disclosed vulnerability Symantec...
 
Tags: flash player, recent flash player, exploits, flash player exploits, non-flash player, exploit, target windows users, users, flash player standalone
 
 
 
 
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Exploit Reveals the Darker Side of Automatic Updates

2008-07-30 03:07:58 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 
...exploits that could otherwise be prevented Firefox got top marks in the browser study because of its automatic update feature, which notifies users of the latest patches as soon as theyre available. A growing number of vendors are using a similar approach, automatically checking for updates whenever you use their software. But now it turns...
 
Tags: automatic, malicious code, install malicious code, code, automatic updaters, application patches, patches, exploit, software packages
 
 
 
 
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local root exploit in the wild!!!

2008-02-11 08:10:58 by KageSenshi in Shadow Logs
 
...Exploit By qaaz mmap: 0x0 .. 0x1000 page: 0x0 page: 0x20 mmap: 0x4000 .. 0x5000 page: 0x4000 page: 0x4020 mmap: 0x1000 .. 0x2000 page: 0x1000 mmap: 0xb7f95000 .. 0xb7fc7000 root root@Hoshino tmp]# uname -a Linux Hoshino.KageSenshi.Org 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 #1 SMP Fri Dec 7 15:49:59 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Hikari Release: Rawhide...
 
Tags: tmp, roothoshino tmp uname, bugzilla, bugzilla page, page, izharhikari tmp uname, mmap, kernel, kernel-2
 
 
 
 
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Online Updates Insecure Due To Evilgrade Exploit Toolkit

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2008-08-04 17:21:40 by Valentino in MS Windows Vista Compatible Software
...Exploit Toolkit infecting computers that update software online We can all agree that software updates are essential for keeping our computer safe and running to the best of its abilities right? What if the software update service was insecure to begin with, where do you go from there A malware kit called Evilgrade is currently attacking...
 
Tags: evilgrade, evilgrade exploit toolkit, software online, software, insecure due, insecure, online, dns, dap download accelerator
 
 
 
 
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Exploit code loose for six-month-old Windows bug

2008-10-10 18:33:53 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 
...exploit code is circulating for a vulnerability it acknowledged six months ago, but has yet to patch Its not clear whether Microsoft intends to fix the flaw next week On Thursday, Microsoft revised a security advisory it first posted April 19 about a bug in Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008 that could be exploited to gain...
 
Tags: bug, exploit code, windows, server, windows server, microsoft, microsoft corp, cerrudos bug, vulnerability
 
 
 
 
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Thoughts on why we need exploit code and hacker tools

2008-10-28 21:27:00 by CG in Carnal0wnage Blog