Taking a closer look at the Glazunov exploit kit
A posting from Naked Security on Glazunov exploit kit: The one I have chosen has been quite active of late, and has a few interesting characteristics I wanted to highlight. As it happens, I do not actually know its "official" name (as in the name assigned by the author), but it was originallychristened Glazunov by another researcher tracking […]
Not good enough, Oracle - promises to secure Java are too little, too late
An interesting article from Naked security: Oracle has promised to work harder to make Java more secure. Given the constant flood of high-profile, heavily-exploited vulnerabilities, are Oracle's new ideas going to be enough to save this piece of software from drowning in bad vibes? In a lengthy blog post last week, the head of Java […]
Researchers claim to have found more zero-day vulnerabilities in Java
An article from Naked security on java vulnerabilities: A security research team that has alerted Oracle to a series of security flaws in Java in the past, says that it has uncovered new zero-day vulnerabilities in the software. According to Polish firm update posted by Security Explorations, it has sent proof-of-concept code to Oracle's security […]