Security News > 2017 > July > Zero-Day Vulnerabilities against Windows in the NSA Tools Released by the Shadow Brokers (Schneier on Security)
2017-07-28 11:16
In April, the Shadow Brokers -- presumably Russia -- released a batch of Windows exploits from what is presumably the NSA. Included in that release were eight different Windows vulnerabilities. Given a presumed theft date of the data as sometime between 2012 and 2013 -- based on timestamps of the documents and the limited Windows 8 support of the tools:...
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