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ALERT! Wi-Fi Password Phishing Attacks Automated With New Tool

  • 8th January 2015
An open source piece of software made available on Sunday can be used to automate phishing attacks that target credentials for Wi-Fi networks. Many attacks against networks protected with the WPA and WPA2 security protocols involve brute forcing. The tool developed by Greek IT security engineer George Chatzisofroniou, dubbed Wifiphisher, ...
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Microsoft Warns of Malicious Macros Targeting Users in the UK and the US

  • 8th January 2015
Two malware pieces have been delivered to users in the UK and the US via malicious email campaigns relying on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros in their Microsoft Office programs. Macros are simple instructions designed to help users in their work with components of the Office suite by allowing them to automate repetitive ...
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SQL Injection, Other Vulnerabilities Found in InfiniteWP Admin Panel

  • 15th December 2014
Researchers have uncovered several vulnerabilities in the admin panel of InfiniteWP, a free application that allows WordPress website administrators to control multiple installations from a single dashboard. The client for the WordPress management platform has been downloaded more than 875,000 times from the official WordPress website, and ...
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'Critical' security bugs dating back to 1987 found in X Window

  • 15th December 2014
27-year-old flaw and others slain in open-source patch batch X.org, which develops the open-source X Window System for Linux and other Unix-y desktops, has warned security flaws have been discovered in the code – and some of them have been hanging around for 27 years. The bugs can be exploited by applications to crash the window system, or ...
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