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Microsoft issues out-of-band patch for critical Internet Explorer flaw

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A dangerous flaw in Internet Explorer has prompted Microsoft to issue a patch outside its regularly scheduled monthly security updates in order to head off a known exploit of the vulnerability.

The company has issued a security bulletin that describes how users who are lured to specially crafted webpages could have attackers take over control of their computers with the same rights as the user who logged into the machine.

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Network World Tim Greene

Facebook axes a future intern for exposing a privacy flaw

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After being accepted for an internship at Facebook, Harvard University student Aran Khanna continued to embrace the same entrepreneurial spirit that helped launch the site on the very same campus over a decade ago. Ironically, his efforts cost him his chance at working at the company.

Khanna discovered a privacy flaw in the default settings of Facebook’s Messenger app for Android that automatically shared users’ detailed location data. To draw attention to the flaw, Khanna launched an Android app called Marauder’s Map that mapped Facebook users’ locations based on their activity on Messenger in May, according to Boston.com. The app showed that the location sharing was accurate to within a three-foot distance and shared users’ location data even with Facebook users they were not Friends with.

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Network World Colin Neagle

Google has another try at patching Stagefright flaw

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Google has released another patch for the Stagefright vulnerability after a security firm said the first one didn’t fix it.

Hundreds of millions of Android devices are vulnerable to Stagefright. A device can be compromised merely through the receipt of a specially crafted multimedia message (MMS), so an attacker needs only the victim’s phone number.

The flaw was found by Joshua Drake at mobile security firm Zimperium, which submitted a set of patches along with its big report. Google released its first patch for Stagefright last week.

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Hackers expose Apple security flaw with a computer worm virus that infects Macbooks without detection

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A new computer worm has been designed to show that Apple Macbooks aren’t as safe from viruses as many might think A pair of security experts have found a flaw on Apple’s Mac computers and developed an experimental virus to emphasise the danger. Xeno Kovah …
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