Like something right out of the Jetsons Family’s array of labor-saving devices, the Jura F90 Bean to Cup Coffee Machine, a real-world appliance that goes for $2,000 on Amazon, comes with a touchscreen panel, from where drinkers can specify the volume, strength and temperature of their coffee. However, the Pandora’s box in the deal is…
Read MoreNitesh Dhanjani has disclosed around middle of last month a vulnerability in Safari (and the way it interacts with Windows and OSX) that allows a remote malicious user to download several files unknowingly to the user’s default download folder (Desktop for Windows and Downloads for OSX). The attack has been dubbed carpet bombing because of…
Read MoreInvestigations are currently being conducted as reports of targeted attacks through an unpatched security flaw in Microsoft’s Jet Database Engine has surfaced. This vulnerability is exploited through a specially crafted Microsoft Word document detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_EMBED.AA. The Word file launches a Microsoft Database (MDB) file detected as TROJ_MSJET.C, which serves as a…
Read MoreXLS files specially designed to exploit a currently unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Excel (identified as CVE-2008-0081) are reportedly being sent as email attachments in the wild. The attachments, which arrive either as OLYMPIC.XLS or SCHEDULE.XLS are capable of dropping and executing Windows binary executables. This Trojan also drops a non-malicious Excel file and opens it…
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