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RIM Patches Acrobat Distiller Bug In BlackBerry Server

2008-07-22 17:27:20 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
Recently we blogged about a serious vulnerability in the PDF distiller in the BlackBerry Attachment Service . Now RIM has announced resolutions to the problem. BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 4.1 customers can fix it by applying Service Pack 6 (bringing the product to version 4.1.6). There are also interim fixes for users of earlier...
 
Tags: blackberry attachment service, service pack, download pages, pdf distiller, interim fixes, rim, follow, users, versions
 
 
 
 
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The MTA Seeks Compliance on Their Antique Vending Machines

2008-07-21 08:44:25 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...information by hackers and employees. In regards to your security related questions, which we will not address here in any detail, it is safe to say network environment is constructed in such a way that the serious security implications and vulnerabilities you reference do not exist. So we'll have to take their word for it that it's...
 
Tags: system, mta, fare collection system, security implications, security, mta nyc transit, nyc transit, pci, system components
 
 
 
 
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ICANN Approves New .INFO Policy

2008-07-21 08:16:30 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...security and stability issues" and asks Afilias to report on results of the changes. But ICANN did not explicitly solicit public comment on the change before approving it. As DomainNameNews points out though, comments to any registry proposal can be submitted at any time by sending an email to registryservice (at) icann.org and are published...
 
Tags: icann, icann website, abusive domain, domain, afilias reserves, afilias, icann letter, domain registry, policy
 
 
 
 
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BlackBerry PDF Distiller Vulnerability

2008-07-15 21:36:34 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
An unpatched vulnerability in the PDF distiller in the BlackBerry Attachment Service has been revealed by Research In Motion. Thanks to the Internet Storm Center for alerting us to the problem. The distiller is a program that reads PDF files and re-renders them in a format that the BlackBerry can display. The BlackBerry Attachment Service runs...
 
Tags: blackberry, pdf, reads pdf files, pdf files, blackberry device, blackberry enterprise server, blackberry attachment service, attachment service, distiller
 
 
 
 
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BlackBerry PDF Distiller Vulnerability

2008-07-15 21:36:34 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
An unpatched vulnerability in the PDF distiller in the BlackBerry Attachment Service has been revealed by Research In Motion. Thanks to the Internet Storm Center for alerting us to the problem. The distiller is a program that reads PDF files and re-renders them in a format that the BlackBerry can display. The BlackBerry Attachment Service runs...
 
Tags: blackberry, pdf, reads pdf files, pdf files, blackberry device, blackberry enterprise server, blackberry attachment service, attachment service, distiller
 
 
 
 
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Vistafication Of Apps

2008-07-13 09:03:15 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...Security MVP, author of the Tales From The Crypto blog , looks at this issue with respect to a program he writes and sells, the WFTPD FTP server . He's decided to "Vistafy" it. Interestingly, none of the changes he proposes (as far as I can tell) would break the applications on other current versions of Windows. He's mostly talking about...
 
Tags: windows, program, windows program correctly, windows ad-infinitum, major versions, versions, microsoft, microsoft security mvp, current versions
 
 
 
 
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Vistafication of Apps

2008-07-13 09:03:15 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...Security MVP, author of the Tales from the Crypto blog, looks at this issue with respect to a program he writes and sells, the WFTPD FTP server. He's decided to "Vistafy" it. Interestingly, none of the changes he proposes (as far as I can tell) would break the applications on other current versions of Windows. He's mostly talking about...
 
Tags: program, windows program correctly, windows, major versions, versions, microsoft, microsoft security mvp, current versions, wftpd ftp server
 
 
 
 
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Why You Should Update Acrobat

2008-07-13 08:37:44 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...Security Response blog . The scam about the Internet TV conspiracy is more interesting than the average spam, but what's really interesting here is the attachment to the e-mail, which is a malicious Acrobat file detected by Symantec's products as Trojan.Pidief.A which exploits a famous Acrobat vulnerability announced last year . That...
 
Tags: acrobat, vulnerability, famous acrobat vulnerability, malicious acrobat file, internet tv conspiracy, internet, average spam, core applications, scandalous news
 
 
 
 
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Why You Should Update Acrobat

2008-07-13 08:37:44 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...Security Response blog. The scam about the Internet TV conspiracy is more interesting than the average spam, but what's really interesting here is the attachment to the e-mail, which is a malicious Acrobat file detected by Symantec's products as Trojan.Pidief.A that exploits a famous Adobe Acrobat vulnerability announced in 2007. That...
 
Tags: acrobat, malicious acrobat file, internet tv conspiracy, internet, average spam, core applications, scandalous news, secret plan, spam message