Google Chrome has released a new version, 16.0.912.75, to fix three high severity security issues. The details about these issues can be found at: https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/01/stable-channel-update.html Most users will get automatically updated to the latest Chrome version. It is recommended to apply this update if you don’t have version 16.0.912.75.
It has been observed that cybercriminals are using the name of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-II after his death to target Internet users. Attackers are achieving this by spamming malicious emails containing specially crafted PDF files named “BriefintroductionofKim-Jong-il.pdf” This PDF file has been found to exploit CVE-2010-2883 and CVE-2010-3333 vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat reader. […]
Microsoft has released an out-of-band bulletin MS11-100 addressing four vulnerabilities. The bulletin is rated by Microsoft as critical and the vulnerabilities are listed as below: – Collisions in HashTable May Cause DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2011-3414) – Insecure Redirect in .NET Form Authentication Vulnerability (CVE-2011-3415) – ASP.Net Forms Authentication Bypass Vulnerability (CVE-2011-3416) – ASP.NET Forms Authentication Ticket […]