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Microsoft admits zero-day bug in IE8, pledges patch
2013-05-06 13:13:41| InfoWorld: Top News
Microsoft late Friday confirmed that a "zero-day," or unpatched, vulnerability exists in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the company's most popular browser. According to multiple security firms, the vulnerability has been used in active exploits, including "watering hole"-style attacks against the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Energy, targeting workers at the latter agency involved in nuclear weapons research.
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Java zero-day holes appearing at the rate of one a day
2013-03-05 18:17:38| InfoWorld: Top News
Raise your hand if you're tired of reading about Java zero-day security holes. I know that I am.
Oracle releases emergency fix for Java zero-day exploit
2013-03-05 00:32:06| InfoWorld: Top News
Oracle released emergency patches for Java on Monday to address two critical vulnerabilities, one of which is actively being exploited by hackers in targeted attacks. The vulnerabilities, identified as CVE-2013-1493 and CVE-2013-0809, are located in the 2D component of Java and received the highest possible impact score from Oracle.
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Researchers link latest Java zero-day exploit to Bit9 hack
2013-03-04 14:41:12| InfoWorld: Top News
The attacks discovered last week that exploited a previously unknown Java vulnerability were likely launched by the same attackers that previously targeted security firm Bit9 and its customers, according to researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec.
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Adobe issues emergency patch for zero-day Flash vulnerabilities
2013-02-27 00:51:56| CNET News.com
The company says two vulnerabilities are being actively exploited and recommends that Windows and Mac OS X users of the browser plug-in update their systems immediately. [Read more]
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