And before that bug could be patched, another critical security flaw in the program appeared.
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CellCrypt makes software for encrypting mobile phone conversations, patching the security flaw that Hulton and Muller's research has uncovered.
Exposing a security flaw in widely used software is always a tricky business.
According to some reports by technical publishers, the instructions needed to exploit the security flaw are readily available on the Internet.
Recently, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that there is a major security flaw in all versions of Java.
The reality is that the security flaw in the Java programming language will likely find vulnerabilities in a wide range of industries.
Until the security flaw is patched, Homeland Security is advising people to disable Java in any computer or device that accesses the Internet.
Sohn said the security flaw was unrelated to the intrusion Microsoft reported to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Oct. 26.
That security flaw was first publicly demonstrated by Cody Brocious, a 24-year-old software developer for Mozilla, at the Black Hat hacker conference in July.
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Give Microsoft credit: Its first fix for a security flaw in Internet Explorer that was actively exploited by hackers may have been complex and unworkable.
Kaminsky, to his credit, has been careful to guard the details of the security flaw, though he's worked closely with software vendors since he discovered it in March.
Still fascinated by systems, Dorsey discovered a security flaw in a website operated by a New York City company called Dispatch Management Services, run by Greg Kidd.
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The security flaw, found in the DNS servers used by large companies and Internet service providers (ISPs), could allow cybercriminals to perform a new, undetectable form of "phishing, " security analysts warn.
Oracle just scored points with the security community for rushing out an early patch for a critical security flaw in Java that was already being widely exploited by the cybercriminal underground.
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This specific security flaw was disclosed by a group of security researchers, and it was a direct result of changes that Oracle made to Java in an effort to fix another vulnerability.
Jesper Andersen, the developer behind anti-social networking app Avoidr, discovered a security flaw in Foursquare that allowed him to monitor 875, 000 check-ins in San Francisco over the past three weeks, Wired reports.
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After researchers discovered that a number of popular sites were exploiting a Javascript security flaw to see what other websites their visitors had been to, class action lawyers and the government took notice.
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For Square, the benefits are somewhat obvious: Backing by a company like Visa lends legitimacy to the rapidly growing venture and also serves to allay some of the security flaw allegations that have been lobbed at Square.
According to the hacker group, known as Goatse Security, a flaw in the Safari browser would allow cybercriminals to hijack iPads and use them for sending spam, stealing passwords or other mischief.
When Oracle released a patch, Security Explorations quickly found another flaw in the fix that would allow the new security measures to be bypassed.
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Mobile security company Intrepidus Group presented evidence during the EUSecWest security conference potentially identifying a major flaw in at least two US transit systems.
However, some of the shine of the launch was removed by reports that a security firm had already found a flaw in the browser.
In July, security researcher Dan Kaminsky revealed a flaw in the Web's domain name system, or DNS, the protocol that connects a Web site's name with its physical location on the Internet.
Dan Kaminsky, the security researcher who found a major flaw in the domain name system in 2008 and recently founded a new company devoted to securing Web applications, says that a rickety session management system combined with a record number of users led to the tangled logins.
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The DHS was most concerned about the flaw identified in the MS06-040 security report.
The flaw was spotted by Luxembourg-based security expert Eric Romang, when his PC was infected by Poison Ivy last week.
When attacks against Java began appearing last month, security researchers advised users to disable the program until the flaw was patched.
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On its Security Response Center blog Microsoft said it had been notified about the flaw in December 2006 and had been working on a fix since then.
In August a flaw in the software, also reported months earlier by Security Explorations, was exploited by hackers installing malware including the Poison Ivy trojan on target PCs.
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