Researchers from the University of Liverpool have demonstrated that a computer virus can spread through Wi-Fi access points between homes and businesses just like the common cold spreads from one human to another. The researchers have performed an experiment in a laboratory setting with the aid of the Chameleon virus, Continue Reading
Adobe has released an emergency update for its widely used Flash Player to combat active attacks that exploit a previously unknown security bug that hackers are actively exploiting to surreptitiously install malware on end-user computers. The vulnerability, which affects the latest versions of Flash, was being exploited in drive-by attacks Continue Reading
Microsoft has finally issued a security advisory addressing the IE zero-day that has been recently actively exploited in attacks in the wild, and has followed with a Fix it tool to temporarily mitigate the issue until a patch is released. This zero-day is a remote code execution vulnerability, which may Continue Reading
Microsoft has released 31 security fixes as part of its Patch Tuesday software update. These cover major products including Windows and Internet Explorer, as well as the firm’s .NET Framework and Forefront Protection for Exchange. Four of the updates are marked as critical and three as important. Dustin Childs, group Continue Reading
Apache Tomcat is a widely used Web server for hosting applications developed with the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies are at risk due to denial-of-service issue. Recently, Security researchers published a proof-of-concept exploit for vulnerability that allows attackers to launch denial-of-service attacks against websites hosted on Apache Continue Reading
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