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The problems include cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, SQL injection holes and the possibility to submit and run commands on the system shell
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China is reportedly expanding its cyber espionage in increasingly targeted and successful ways
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RSA's FraudAction service is to be linked with Trend Micro's "Smart Protection Network" infrastructure to obtain information about current threats
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Mozilla has confirmed that Firefox 3.0.15, 3.5.4 and the first beta for Firefox 3.6 have all been delayed. The fifth beta of Mozilla's Fennec mobile web browser has a release date and the final version of SeaMonkey 2.0 is on schedule
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Metasploit, a major exploits site and exploit framework project, has been acquired by commercial security company Rapid7
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Version 6.3 of TrueCrypt adds full support for Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
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By analysing the fluctuations in re-radiated signals from mobile phones caused during cryptographic operations, researchers have been able to crack mobile phone keys
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The 'hardening release' contains a number of functions back ported from version 2.9 beta which should make the blogging system more resistant to attack
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Finjan's Vital Cloud and Vital Cloud Hybrid are to provide businesses with secure cloud computing facilities
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The VMware security announcement lists a total of 48 CVE entries. Updates are already available for some of its products
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As previously announced, AVG Technologies has made the free AVG Free 9.0 for home users available to download. However, the free version lacks several features that are present in the commercial products
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Security holes in numerous PDF applications allow attackers to infect systems with malware. Affected applications include Xpdf and the Foxit plug-in for Mozilla's Firefox web browser
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Oracle has confirmed that on Tuesday, it plans to release updates for 21 of its products to address 38 security vulnerabilities on Tuesday, some of which scored a 10, the highest possible, in the Common Vulnerability Scoring System
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Security expert Joanna Rutkowska has developed a tool that attackers can use to get access to hard drives encrypted with TrueCrypt
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Firefox 3.5 started to block a Microsoft plug-in that can be used to exploit a security hole in .NET Framework 3.51. But now Mozilla is unblocking it after confusion over the vulnerability
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A company blog post reveals that Microsoft was aware of the SMB2 security hole long before it was publicised by an independent security expert
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A number of Facebook apps specifically target security holes in Adobe Reader to inject scareware on users' systems. It seems that the application providers themselves have become the victims of attacks
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The previous versions of the MySQL administration system were potentially vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks and the injection of arbitrary SQL commands
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Although the Wiesbaden-based police authority has never used the option of using secret online searches, which has been available in Germany since the 1st of January 2009, the authority continues to consider online searches an indispensable tool for police investigations
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Unpatched, 13 CA products allow malicious code injection on unpacking RAR archives
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A little under two weeks after a server failure at the company's Danger subsidiary, Microsoft has reported that it has been able to restore "most, if not all," of the lost data
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Adobe has released updates for its Acrobat and Reader products, closing 29 security vulnerabilities, including a previously reported critical hole that is already being exploited by attackers
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Google is to assist web page operators with cleaning up and optimising their web presence by providing views of web pages as they appear to the Google bot, including information about malicious code
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The company has released 13 update packages which fix a total of 34 security vulnerabilities - there really is something for everyone. Patch day also for the first time includes patches for the forthcoming Windows 7
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The association of German IT security firms has awarded its annual innovation prize to a Spanish banking group. The group intends to save paper by using biometric digital signatures
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