Security News

Financial Apps are Ripe for Exploit via Reverse Engineering
2019-04-02 09:01

White hat hacker reverse engineers financial apps and finds a treasure trove of security issues.

Mirai Botnet Code Gets Exploit Refresh
2019-03-19 10:48

Users of Mirai Likely Seek Enterprise-Class Bandwidth, Says Palo Alto NetworksMirai, the powerful malware that unleashed unprecedented, distributed denial-of-service attacks in 2016, has never...

Mirai Variant Adds Dozen New Exploits to Target Enterprise IoT Devices
2019-03-19 08:03

Security researchers have uncovered a new variant of the infamous Mirai Internet of Things botnet, this time targeting embedded devices intended for use within business environments in an attempt...

How China Exploits Social Media to Influence American Public
2019-03-08 14:37

The growth of Russia's attempts to manipulate American public opinion since 2015 is well known and documented. At heart, it is basic political propaganda -- which is an accepted tool of...

Zerodium Offers $500,000 for VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V Exploits
2019-03-08 07:11

Exploit acquisition firm Zerodium this week announced that it’s prepared to pay up to $500,000 for VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V vulnerabilities. read more

RSAC 2019: Microsoft Zero-Day Allows Exploits to Sneak Past Sandboxes
2019-03-05 11:00

Researchers say that Microsoft won't issue a patch for the issue.

Bad news: Google drops macOS zero-day after Apple misses bug deadline. Good news: It's fiddly to exploit
2019-03-05 06:43

Step one: Run malware on your victim's machine. Step two: Mount some storage... Google has publicly disclosed a zero-day flaw in Apple's macOS after the Cupertino mobe-maker failed to fix the...

A third of 2018’s vulnerabilities have public exploits, 50% can be exploited remotely
2019-03-04 06:15

Over 22,000 new vulnerabilities were disclosed during 2018, according to Risk Based Security’s 2018 Year End Vulnerability QuickView Report. While approximately 33% of published vulnerabilities...

Adobe Patches Critical ColdFusion Vulnerability With Active Exploit
2019-03-01 20:22

Adobe has hurried out a patch for a critical arbitrary code execution vulnerability in its ColdFusion product.

Cryptocurrency Miners Exploit Latest Drupal Flaw
2019-02-27 11:18

Patch Now to Block Remote Code Execution Exploits of Content Management SystemJust days after Drupal warned of a "highly critical" flaw in its web services modules, hackers came calling,...