Zero Day Initiative Advisory 11-295 – This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple Quicktime. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file

IT security experts have long loved to troll through hacker forums to gather intelligence on emerging threats and even (as in the ill-fated case of HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr ) try to profile the hackers themselves. But as a report from IT security firm Imperva shows, many of the so-called hacker portals out there are more hangouts for newbie hackers (and possibly a few budding FBI informants …

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IBNLive.com Assange calls WikiLeaks defection reports false IBNLive.com AP Lima (Peru): WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange described as nonsense reports of defections from his organisation and said his group helped inspire the Occupy Wall Street movement. Addressing a meeting of the Inter American Press Association in Peru …