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Credit to Author: Andrew ODonnell| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 19:16:44 +0000
With 23 critical vulnerabilities addressed in patches from Microsoft and Adobe, August is turning out to be a good month for updates — but don’t delay installing them.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/_Fw-RIvgU1s” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read MoreCredit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:18:45 +0000
I have never reverse engineered anything, but I did dismantle a Betamax VCR and put it back together without an instruction manual. My little brother liked to use the tape slot as a garage for his Hot Wheels® toy cars. We were usually able to take out the cars without any issues, but one day,…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:51:39 +0000
As I pull together the list of zero-day filters for this blog, I see all types of vulnerabilities from various vendors. My interest is always piqued when I see a vulnerability affecting a security company. The Zero Day Initiative’s (ZDI) interest was also piqued when the researcher Pagefault submitted a Bitdefender vulnerability to the ZDI…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Sameer Patil| Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 09:59:53 +0000
The recent zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-5002 in Adobe Flash Player enables attackers to perform a Remote Code Execution on targeted machines. Adobe has released a security advisory APSB18-19 on June 7, 2018 to address this issue. According to Adobe, the in-wild exploit is being used in limited, targeted attacks and it…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:08:40 +0000
I ended up at an urgent care clinic earlier this week and found out I have strep throat. The doctor who examined me asked me what medicine I had taken prior to my visit to help alleviate my throat pain, to which I replied, “I took a multi-symptom liquid medicine because the pain was keeping…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Prashant Kadam| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 13:10:48 +0000
The recent zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-4990 in Adobe Reader enables attackers to perform a Remote Code Execution on targeted machines. Adobe has released a security advisory APSB18-09 on May 14, 2018 to address this issue. According to Adobe, the in-wild attack is targeted and it impacts limited Windows users. Vulnerable versions…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 18:44:14 +0000
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| A new Adobe Reader zero-day exploit has been discovered, including a full sandbox escape. Categories: Tags: 0dayadobeAdobe ReaderCVE-2018-4990CVE-2018-8120zero day |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 08 May 2018 20:38:16 +0000
Microsoft today released a bundle of security updates to fix at least 67 holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software, including one dangerous flaw that Microsoft warns is actively being exploited. Meanwhile, as it usually does on Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday — the second Tuesday of each month — Adobe has a new Flash Player update that addresses a single but critical security weakness. First, the Flash Tuesday update, which brings Flash Player to v. 29.0.0.171. Some (present company included) would argue that Flash Player is in itself “a single but critical security weakness.” Nevertheless, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer/Edge ship with their own versions of Flash, which get updated automatically when new versions of these browsers are made available.
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