• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-28-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Google’s VirusTotal now identifies suspicious firmware

Google’s VirusTotal service has added a new tool that analyzes firmware, the low-level code that bridges a computer’s hardware and operating system at startup.
Advanced attackers, including the U.S. National Security Agency, have targeted firmware as a place to embed malware since […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-28-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Oracle’s killing a favorite security hole for attackers: the Java browser plug-in

Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that.“Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser plugin in JDK 9,” the Java Platform Group […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-28-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Oracle’s killing a favorite security hole for attackers: the Java browser plug-in

Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that.“Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser plugin in JDK 9,” the Java Platform Group […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-28-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Oracle is planning to kill an attacker’s favorite: the Java browser plug-in

Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that."Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser plugin in JDK 9," the Java Platform Gr... Read More