Security News > 2017 > May > Google 0-Day Hunter Finds Worst “Windows RCE Exploit” of All Time (The Hackers News)
2017-05-08 03:57
Google Project Zero's security researchers have discovered another critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows operating system, claiming that it is something truly bad. Tavis Ormandy announced during the weekend that he and another Project Zero researcher Natalie Silvanovich discovered "the worst Windows remote code [execution vulnerability] in recent memory.
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