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Professor Gupta says a lot of folks running nonprofits are retired government officials who exploit their political connections for money, often putting their families on the payroll.
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Developers of the Metasploit framework for hackers and penetration testers have released a module that should exploit the vulnerability on machines running Windows, Apple OS X, and Linux regardless of the browser they're using.
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So far, Alephzain has confirmed that the Galaxy S II, III, Note II and the Meizu MX are at risk, but notes that the exploit might work on any device running a Exynos 4210 or 4412 processor.
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Within a few days, that was proven false as researcher Dino Dai Zovi, followed by others, used the same exploit on a Windows 7 machine running IE 8, a technique he demonstrated live at the RSA Conference in March.
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On Tuesday the French firm Vupen, whose researchers develop software hacking techniques and sell them to government agency customers, announced that it had already developed an exploit that could take over a Window 8 machine running Internet Explorer 10, in spite of the many significant security upgrades Microsoft built into the latest version of its operating system.
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