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SSD Advisory – iOS/macOS Safari Sandbox Escape via QuartzCore Heap Overflow

Credit to Author: SSD / Ori Nimron| Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:08:59 +0000

Vulnerabilities Summary QuartzCore ( https://developer.apple.com/documentation/quartzcore ), also known as CoreAnimation, is a framework use by macOS and iOS to build an animatable scene graph. CoreAnimation uses a unique rendering model where the graphics operations are run in a separate process. On macOS, the process is WindowServer and on iOS the name is backboardd. Both of … Continue reading SSD Advisory – iOS/macOS Safari Sandbox Escape via QuartzCore Heap Overflow

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What the Marriott Breach Says About Security

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2018 21:16:13 +0000

We don’t yet know the root cause(s) that forced Marriott this week to disclose a four-year-long breach involving the personal and financial information of 500 million guests of its Starwood hotel properties. But anytime we see such a colossal intrusion go undetected for so long, the ultimate cause is usually a failure to adopt the most important principle in cybersecurity defense that applies to both corporations and consumers: Assume you are compromised.

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