Security News

Compromising Macs with simple Gatekeeper bypass (Help Net Security)
2015-10-01 10:16

Patrick Wardle, director of research at security firm Synack, has discovered a worryingly simple way to bypass OS X's Gatekeeper defense mechanism: just bundle a legitimate Apple-signed app with a mal...

Apple Gatekeeper Bypass Opens Door for Malicious Code (Threatpost)
2015-09-30 13:10

Researcher Patrick Wardle will demonstrate a Mac OS X Gatekeeper bypass that exploits a weakness in the Apple OS that allows signed apps to execute malicious code.

Cisco Patches Denial-of-Service, Bypass Vulnerabilities in IOS (Threatpost)
2015-09-24 15:16

Cisco pushed out its usual semiannual round of patches on Wednesday for IOS, the software the company uses for most of its routers and switches.

Bypass Developed for Microsoft Memory Protection, Control Flow Guard (Threatpost)
2015-09-22 19:00

A researcher at Bromium is expected at DerbyCon to disclose a memory corruption mitigation bypass of Microsoft Control Flow Guard.