Pentagon’s unclassified email system breached, Russian hackers blamed
Pentagon’s Joint Staff unclassified email system, used by 4,000 military and civilian personnel, has been compromised by attackers, and it has been taken offline until …
Vulnerabilities in 2015: 0-days, Android vs iOS, OpenSSL
Secunia has taken an early peek at the trend in vulnerabilities for 2015, and has presented the results at Black Hat USA 2015. Seven months into the year, the number of …
Zero-day disclosure-to-weaponization period cut in half
There’s no doubt about it: the batch of stolen information leaked in the wake of the Hacking Team breach was a boon for exploit kit developers.Not only did it contain a …
Hackers actively exploiting OS X zero-day to root machines, deliver adware
“Attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the latest version of Apple’s OS. The bug’s existence has been …
Microsoft plugs another Windows zero-day with emergency patch
Microsoft has released an emergency update that plugs a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2015-2426) that affects all supported versions of Windows and could allow …
Firefox blocks Flash plugin by default until zero-days are fixed
For the last few years, many security experts have been urging users to evaluate whether they actually need to use Adobe Flash.The platform, once practically unavoidable, now …
First Java zero-day in two years exploited by Pawn Storm hackers
Another zero-day vulnerability is being exploited in attacks spotted in the wild: this time, the targeted software is Java.The flaw was spotted by Trend Micro researchers, who …
Two more Flash 0-day exploits found in Hacking Team leak, one already exploited in the wild
Exploits for two more Adobe Flash 0-days have been found in the leaked Hacking Team data. The existence of the vulnerabilities has been acknowledged by Adobe with a security …
Flash 0-day exploit found in Hacking Team’s leaked data exploited by criminals
Human rights and privacy activists and journalists are actively reviewing the data stolen in the Hacking Team breach.Reporters of The Intercept have concentrated on going …
Flash Player 0-day exploited in the wild, patch immediately!
Adobe has released an emergency patch for its notoriously buggy Flash Player software because attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability that can lead to total …
HP releases exploit code for IE zero-day that Microsoft won’t patch
Despite having paid $125,000 for information about an Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer, Microsoft has decided against …
A call to researchers: Mix some creation with your destruction
Since I can first remember being interested in information security, my personal hacker heroes (and I’m using hacker positively here) were the researchers who discovered zero …