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Computer at Japanese Monju Nuclear Power Plant infected with Malware
Malvertising attack on South African Mail & Guardian website serves Fake AV
Straight Dope message board forum hacked
Malware served via Social Engineering attacks
Israel Aviation Agency website hacked
Stack Buffer overflow vulnerability in X Windows, affects Linux

Computer at Japanese Monju Nuclear Power Plant infected with Malware

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST

A computer at Japanese Monju Nuclear Power plant control room was recently found to have infected with a piece of virus. The malware infection does not seems to be part of any kind of targeted...

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Malvertising attack on South African Mail & Guardian website serves Fake AV

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 06:55 AM PST

South African Mail & Guardian news portal is the latest victim of Malvertising attack. This is third report on Malvertising attacks targeting top organizations in 2014. A large number of...

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Straight Dope message board forum hacked

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 12:41 AM PST

The Straight Dope, a famous online Q&A newspaper column published in the Chicago Reader, informs its users that their website is targeted and hacked. The security breach allowed the attackers to...

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Malware served via Social Engineering attacks

Posted: 08 Jan 2014 10:46 PM PST

Cyber Criminals use various type of Social Engineering attack to deliver malware. One of them is Fake Browser updates. Researchers at Symantec have come across a website that urge users...

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Israel Aviation Agency website hacked

Posted: 08 Jan 2014 09:19 PM PST

A Hacker group calling itself 'The Islamic Cyber Resistance Group' claimed to have hacked into the Israel Aviation Authority (iaa.gov.il) website and gained access to its Internal network. The group...

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Stack Buffer overflow vulnerability in X Windows, affects Linux

Posted: 08 Jan 2014 07:23 PM PST

A Stack based buffer overflow vulnerability(CVE-2013-6462) has been identified in the X Windows System affecting all UNIX-like operating systems. According to X.org advisory, BDF font file...

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