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Adobe

New Day, New Exploit – Adobe Flash 21 Compromise

Yet another exploit has been found in Adobe’s Flash Player. This batch of exploits in this case, was found in mid March by Kaspersky Labs being used by hackers in SE Asia and the Middle East. Its use has since…

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By Elliott Swain, 9 years ago
Facebook

Facebook and SS7 – A Match Not Made In Heaven

Those in tech circles have known for awhile about the known flaws of Signaling System 7 (SS7 for short), and the dangers of eavesdropping it can bring. One big thing of late to make your web logins more secure is…

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By Elliott Swain, 9 years ago
Microsoft

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – June 2016

Ah, the second Tuesday of the month. The day when Microsoft dumps more patches to fix the latest security holes found. This round updates a total of 44 security holes in various software, including Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Edge…

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By Elliott Swain, 9 years ago
Attack

WordPress Attack

WordPress blogs came under attack last week with a brute-force attack, attempting to gain control of blogs. The ultimate goal of this attack is to gain botnet computers. Basically how

By Elliott Swain, 12 years ago
Bing

Search Results – The Hidden Dangers

Today we look at search results. I know this is a really boring topic, especially since we’ve been doing this forever. But, this simple act can cause a HUGE problem

By Elliott Swain, 13 years ago
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