Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the founders of the file sharing website The Pirate Bay has been arrested in Cambodia after an international warrant was issued following a conviction in Sweden for copyright violations. The Swedish foreign ministry has confirmed only that a Swedish man "in his thirties" has been arrested in Phnom Penh.

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Critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Photoshop CS6

Adobe has released an update for Photoshop CS6 that closes a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2012-4170) in its popular graphics editing program. Both the Mac and Windows versions of Photoshop CS6 (aka Photoshop 13.0) contain a critical vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take control of affected systems.

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Turkish Hackers Threaten To Break Into Armenian State Agency Websites

The Turkish hacker group had attacked FC Spartak Moscow’s official website.
The Turkish hacker group named Ayyıldız (Moonstar), which had attacked FC Spartak Moscow’s official website—after Yerkramas newspaper of the Russian Armenians had ran an article entitled “Spartak fans will wave Armenia’s and Artsakh’s

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Oracle Fixes Java Zero-Day Flaw, Users Advised to Download Patch

Although few people expected it (many hoped), Oracle has released an out-of-band patch to address the zero-day flaw that affects Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 7. Since attacks that rely on this vulnerability have already been spotted, the company advises users to immediately apply the patch.

The patch addresses a number of three different, but related, bugs that don’t affect standalone desktop applications or servers. However, they affect Java running on desktop web browsers.

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