Since the discovery, more websites have been discovered using the exploit to hijack PCs, install key-loggers or other unwanted programs.
Rather than ban users who used a coupon exploit to get a bunch of free games on Origin, EA is honoring all purchases.
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Many of these exploits are posted by users who are generally concerned with security and demonstrate the exploit to help the company fix it.
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Symantec's Hacker Protection utility, like Shields Up, scans your PC for open ports--electronic gateways into a computer--that hackers can exploit to access a system and files.
It would have been difficult for any of those collaborators to sell their exploit to a shadowy government buyer intent on keeping it secret without the cooperation of their partners.
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Cydia founder Jay Freeman posted the above image on Twitter this afternoon to show that he had gained root access on his unit, telling Forbes he relied upon a well-known Android 4.0.4 exploit to take control of its OS. The bad news?
He argues that a hacker could use a secret exploit to gain access to an iPhone or iPad and then install evasi0n, using the jailbreaking tool to hide his or her tracks and keep the secret exploit technique undiscovered by Apple and unpatched.
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Researchers note that the only way to stay safe is to check those URLs and only visit sites that you trust (which isn't very reassuring) and "may or may not be exploitable" from Mac and PC versions of Safari -- the same vulnerability exists only they haven't written the proof-of-concept exploit to test it yet.
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The net has now become part of the political agenda, and Mr Vajpayee wants to exploit it to the full.
There is an ongoing bull market in gold and despite the inevitable corrections, we should continue to exploit it to the fullest.
"It's better to exploit ways to get a settlement and avoid a long process of investigations, " Mr. Almunia said in an interview this week.
As president, Mr Kuchma is still the main point of contact for foreign mediators, such as the EU's Javier Solana, and Mr Haran says he may be able to exploit this to his advantage.
But Putin was also concerned about the fact that as a candidate, Yavlinsky would have the legal right, which he was well prepared to exploit, to deploy election monitors throughout the country and thereby question the legitimacy of a Putin victory.
The second was to exploit information technology to identify the needy and make sure resources reached them.
While most Millennials have huge social networks, many have no idea how to exploit these networks to their advantage.
Anheuser-Busch wants to exploit the event to position Budweiser as a more upscale brew--instead of one better known for its quarrelsome lizards.
Today, President Clinton is no more candid about his determination to exploit congressional inattention to secure a foreign policy "success" at virtually any price.
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"To try to exploit a tragedy to try to win an election is one of the saddest things I've see in my life, " he said.
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Previously a multitude of clubs who only had year-to-year interest to exploit rather than to develop the brand had held sway and they were devaluing the brand rather than enhancing it.
The ultimate goal was always to exploit the opportunity to pour cash into successful innovations before the competition, but these companies recognized that trial-and-error learning usually uncovers opportunities faster than master plans.
Six Flags, while it had Bugs Bunny World, never bothered to exploit its ability to license newer Warner Bros. franchises Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings to jazz up its rides.
Still, others fear that moves for brisk shifts in the policies of U.S. allies could prove even more destabilizing because they might allow extremist groups or Iran to exploit the situation to their advantage.
In effect, many of the big banks have turned themselves from businesses whose profits rose and fell with the capital-raising needs of their clients into immense trading houses whose fortunes depend on their ability to exploit day-to-day movements in the markets.
The huge expansion in credit card use in recent years has produced a new kind of fraudster - one that will try to exploit any opportunity to reach into almost any credit or debit account that is used to make telephone purchases.
These technologies enable the financiers to exploit their unbundling skills to the full.
"The military photographs were never meant to exploit, promote or to use the uniform to help our group, " the message said.
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"Sheridan is a tall man and the All Blacks front row would try to exploit that by attempting to get underneath him, " he said.
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They will also be able to exploit their balance sheets to scout for deals in real estate and distressed debt, both virtual no-go areas in 2008.
Every moment not spent refining his technique or in some way expanding his knowledge of human nature and how to exploit it is, to his mind, time wasted.
The Forest Service says Tombstone holds permits for just five springs, and it argues the city is trying to exploit a natural disaster to expand its water system.
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