According to ZDNet, an anonymous researcher has posted two new vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader, along with proof of concept, which are under investigation by Adobe.
Archive for May, 2009
New Adobe Reader Zero Day Vulnerabilities
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009McAfee First-Quarter Threats Report
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009McAfee has released its Threat Report for the first quarter of 2009 (available here). The most significant points of this report are the following:
- 12 million new IP addresses were taken in control by malicious software, which is a 50% increase since 2008.
- The United States is now home to the largest percentage of botnet-infected computers, currently hosting 18 percent of all zombie machines.
Botnet hijacking
Thursday, May 7th, 2009Security researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have managed to infiltrate the Torpig botnet (also called Sinowal or Mebroot) allowed them to gain important new insights into one of the world’s most notorious zombie networks by collecting an astounding 70 GB worth of data stolen in just 10 days.
iPhone OS vulnerability
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009Most security researchers thought it wasn’t possible to run shellcode on an iPhone. Shellcode is code that can run from a command line, but the iPhone was thought not to allow it for security reasons. But Charlie Miller recently discovered a way to make it happen.
