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Inside Yahoo’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Security Year – PCMag
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Inside Yahoo's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Security Year
PCMag Last September, the company announced a state-sponsored data breach that affected more than 500 million accounts, and followed that up a few months later by disclosing a separate hack of more than one billion accounts. To add financial insult to injury … |
Steganography Is Very Popular with Exploit Kits All of a Sudden – BleepingComputer
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Steganography Is Very Popular with Exploit Kits All of a Sudden
BleepingComputer Several security firms have detected multiple updates to exploit kits which recently started using steganography as the main component of their operations, or are employing steganography as a way to hide exploit and malware payloads as PNG files. |
Here’s the very best advice on what you should do with Adobe Flash
On Tuesday, Adobe released a critical update patching over 50 security holes in its Flash Player plugin.
Security blogger Brian Krebs says it better than me:
It’s bad enough that hackers are constantly finding and exploiting zero-day flaws in Flash Player before Adobe even knows about the bugs.
The bigger issue is that Flash is an extremely powerful program that runs inside the browser, which means users can compromise their computer just by browsing to a hacked or malicious site that targets unpatched Flash flaws.
The smartest option is probably to ditch this insecure program once and for all and significantly increase the security of your system in the process.
That seems pretty reasonable to me.
Here is our guide on how you can update Adobe Flash on your computer or (even better) uninstall it entirely.
The full advisory on the Flash security vulnerabilities can be read on Adobe’s website, as can details of the security update they have released for another of their beleaguered products – Adobe Reader.