Pwned in 7 seconds: Hackers use Flash and IE to target Forbes visitors

Hackers strung together zero-day vulnerabilities in Flash and Internet Explorer and then compromised Forbes.com so that the attacks would compromise financial services and defense contractor employees visiting the site, researchers said.

"Given the highly trafficked Forbes.com website, the exploit could have been used to infect massive numbers of visitors." Instead, only visitors from US Defense and financial services firms were hacked.