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Oracle's July patch release includes 27 fixes for remote exploits
2013-07-17 13:41:52| InfoWorld: Top News
Oracle said on Tuesday that its monthly round of patches for July includes 89 fixes, 27 of which address remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in four widely used products. The most serious, remotely exploitable vulnerabilities affect the Oracle Database, its Fusion Middleware, the Oracle and Sun Systems Product Suite, and the MySQL database, wrote Eric P. Maurice, director of Oracle Software Security Assurance.
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New Android Trojan app exploits previously unknown flaws, researchers say
2013-06-07 18:02:45| InfoWorld: Top News
A newly discovered Trojan program exploits previously unknown flaws in Android and borrows techniques from Windows malware in order to evade detection and achieve persistence on infected devices. Security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab named the new malicious application Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a and labeled it the most sophisticated Android Trojan program to date.
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Most Java-enabled browsers vulnerable to widespread Java exploits, Websense says
2013-03-26 20:58:43| InfoWorld: Top News
Most browser installations use outdated versions of the Java plug-in that are vulnerable to at least one of several exploits currently used in popular Web attack toolkits, according to statistics published Monday by security vendor Websense.
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Google Apps broker exploits enterprise concerns about Microsoft's Office changes
2013-03-22 11:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
A cloud service broker is pitching Google Apps to enterprises by playing on their fears about recent changes Microsoft's made to Office. Atlanta-based Cloud Sherpas has had success moving Google Apps for Business by focusing on two major enterprise concerns about Office 2013: Microsoft's push to a rent-not-buy subscription model, and because of that, an increase in the complexity of the Microsoft's already-unfathomable licensing rules.
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Cybercriminals using digitally signed Java exploits to trick users
2013-03-05 20:21:30| InfoWorld: Top News
Security researchers warn that cybercriminals have started using Java exploits signed with digital certificates to trick users into allowing the malicious code to run inside browsers. A signed Java exploit was discovered Monday on a website belonging to the Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany that was infected with a Web exploit toolkit called g01pack, security researcher Eric Romang said Tuesday in a blog post.