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Drive-by espionage attacks target Java, Flash flaws

...said. Amnesty International Hong Kong's Chinese-language site is serving Flash exploit code. The attack does not appear to be linked to an attack... Read more

16 May, 2012
Malware uses Office flaw to target Mac OS X

Malware uses Office flaw to target Mac OS X

...naming convention of its security updates. Due to the way that the exploit code is loaded into memory, and how OS X Lion protects certain... Read more

2 May, 2012 by Michael Lee

Critical Windows bug patched, but Duqu flaw remains

...Microsoft has given it an Exploitability index of '2,' meaning that the exploit code is inconsistent, but otherwise this has all the required markings for... Read more

9 November, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Italian researcher uncovers more SCADA holes

...Auriemma released information about the previously unknown vulnerabilities and proof-of-concept exploit code earlier this week on his web site. He has been prolific... Read more

19 September, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Researchers highlight Chrome vulnerability

...malicious web page hosting the exploit. Once the machine is compromised, the exploit code downloads a calculator program from a remote location and launches it... Read more

10 May, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Hackers exploit Internet Explorer hole for targeted attack

...were sent to people in organisations directing them to a website where exploit code could take over their computers. Symantec researchers described how hackers had... Read more

4 November, 2010 by Elinor Mills

Linux kernel exploit roots 64-bit machines

...said Ksplice chief executive Jeff Arnold in a blog post on Saturday. Exploit code was made available on the Full Disclosure mailing list on Wednesday... Read more

21 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Old QuickTime code leaves IE open to attack

...to the Metasploit project, a security project that develops tools for executing exploit code against target machines. Security researcher HD Moore told security company Kaspersky... Read more

31 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Windows systems at risk from Stuxnet shortcut malware

...shortcut icons to mitigate the threat, the company advised. Proof-of-concept exploit code for the vulnerability was posted on research organisation Offensive Security's... Read more

19 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Mozilla patches critical Firefox flaws

...to give out his surname for security reasons, released proof-of-concept exploit code for the flaw in a paper on Wednesday. The heap buffer... Read more

24 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft to fix Windows, Internet Explorer, Office holes

...to a cross-site scripting attack via the browser. Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published for that. For more on this story, see... Read more

4 June, 2010 by Elinor Mills
Application of DHT Protocol in IP Cloaking

Application of DHT Protocol in IP Cloaking

...with the integrity of the system. The misuse of websites to serve exploit code to compromise hosts on the Internet has increased drastically in the... Read more

2 March, 2012

PHP exploit code found on image-hosting site

Security researchers have found PHP exploit code embedded in a GIF on a major image-hosting site. The... Read more

21 June, 2007 by Dawn Kawamoto

IE6, IE7 hit by zero-day bug

...a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 has been published. The exploit code, which was posted on the Buqtraq mailing-list on Friday, is... Read more

23 November, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Exploit code threatening Windows PCs

...have been released onto the Internet, security companies have warned. The first exploit code takes advantage of a "critical" flaw in the Windows Dynamic Host... Read more

26 July, 2006 by Joris Evers

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