Russian advanced persistent threat group Sofacy has another ace up its sleeve: a Flash Player exploit tool, dubbed DealersChoice, that in some ways resembles a Russian nesting doll.
Hackers exploited security vulnerabilities and weak passwords to burrow their way into a number of e-commerce sites, including that of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
An Italian researcher who discovered a bug in IBM WebSphere and then worked with the company for two months on fixing the flaw, had his research censored by Big Blue.
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