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Despite a larger than usual Patch Tuesday addressing 13 vulnerabilities yesterday, Microsoft appears to have left out a few vulnerabilities that the Stuxnet worm exploits. First publicized in July attacking vulnerable systems via a Windows shortcut bug, Stuxnet apparently uses four additional zero-day bugs and two stolen digital certificates to game the OS’s escalation of privileges system, according to security researchers at Kaspersky Labs.… Read More

At the SyScan security conference being held in Singapore this week, Macintosh security expert Charlie Miller has outlined an SMS-based vulnerability in the Apple iPhone that could let attackers listen in on calls, access the GPS unit to locate the phone, execute arbitrary programs, and even let the phone participate in distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against other Internet sites via the Internet. Miller didn't go… Read More

“A vulnerability just found in the 802.11 wireless standard will allow a remote attacker to jam all wireless networks within a one kilometer radius using a standard Wi-Fi PDA or similar wireless enabled device. According to the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team, AusCERT, this new attack specifically exploits the CCA function at the physical layer and causes all WLAN nodes within range of the

The vulnerability affects the 2.6.x branch prior to version 2.6.3 and the Linux kernel memory management code. Experts note that the latest bug is unrelated to a previous vulnerability in the same internal kernel function code. Read more on this story at InternetNews.com.