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• Malware peddlers exploit death of Hugo Chavez

  08.03.2013

  As predicted, the death of such a well-known and controversial politician as the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been exploited by cyber criminals to lead users to malware.

• Pwn2Own ends with Adobe Flash, Reader and Oracle Java exploits

  08.03.2013

  Day two of the Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest was again successful for French Vupen security, as they succeeded in exploiting Adobe Flash on Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 by chaining together three zero-days (an overflow, a ASLR bypass technique and a IE9 sandbox memory corruption) and earning themselves another $70,000.

• Pwn2Own: IE, Firefox, Chrome and Java go down

  07.03.2013

  The Pwn2Own competition is underway at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, and during the first day of competition Java, IE 10, Firefox and Chrome were successfully "pwned" by various competitors, bringing them tens of thousands of dollars in prizes.

• Samsung Galaxy devices' lock screen easily bypassed

  06.03.2013

  This week revealed not one, but two security vulnerabilities that allow anyone to bypass the lock screen on a variety of Samsung Android smatphones.

• New exploit kit concentrates on Java flaws

  05.03.2013

  Webroot's Dancho Danchev is known for combing through the wilds of the Internet for places where cyber criminals congregate and reporting back with interesting news about tools and services offered for sale.

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