Syrian Electronic Army attack Spreads pop-ups across News Sites
A Thanksgiving-day attack saddled several news media websites with pop-up messages promoting the Syrian Electronic Army hacking group. Among those the attack affected were two UK newspapers, the Independent and the Telegraph, as well as CNBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., and the Boston Globe. But the attack was indirect, relying on an Internet-address switcheroo involving […]
Google releases attack code for serious Adobe Reader bug
Windows users who haven’t updated to the latest version of Acrobat and Adobe Reader probably should do so right now, after a Google security researcher revealed details of a vulnerability affecting the pair, and how to exploit it. As Adobe noted in its September security update for Acrobat and Reader on Windows, version 11.0.8 of […]