Security News

Firefox 0-day exploited in the wild to unmask Tor users (Help Net Security)
2016-11-30 17:09

An anonymous user of the SIGAINT darknet email service has revealed the existence of a JavaScript exploit that is apparently being actively used to de-anonymize Tor Browser users. The warning came...

Week in review: Actively exploited Windows 0-day, ICS and IoT security (Help Net Security)
2016-11-06 13:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts and articles: 65% of Windows devices still running Windows 7, released in 2009 To analyze the current state of device...

Week in review: MySQL 0-day, Stingrays, and the end of Patch Tuesday (Help Net Security)
2016-09-18 13:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Five ways to respond to the ransomware threat While organizations wrestle with the ever-pressing issue of whether to...

MySQL 0-day could lead to total system compromise (Help Net Security)
2016-09-12 19:17

Researcher Dawid Golunski has discovered multiple severe vulnerabilities affecting the popular open source database MySQL and its forks (e.g. MariaDB, Percona). One of these – CVE-2016-6662 – can...

Fix for actively exploited Flash Player 0day is out, patch ASAP! (Help Net Security)
2016-06-17 00:59

Adobe has issued a patch for the Plash Player zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) that is actively exploited by the ScarCruft APT group. The bug, discovered by Anton Ivanov of Kaspersky Labs,...

Week in review: Windows 0day for sale, and lessons learned from 17 years as an infosec trainer (Help Net Security)
2016-06-06 12:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: ICS-focused IRONGATE malware has some interesting tricks up its sleeve FireEye researchers discovered a...