Security News

Firefox Scrambles to Patch Zero Day Actively Exploiting Tor Browser (Threatpost)
2016-11-30 17:44

A zero-day vulnerability in Firefox, similar to one created by the FBI in 2013, is actively being exploited in the Tor Project’s anonymizing TorBrowser.

Pawn Storm raced to pop many targets before Windows zero-day patch release (Help Net Security)
2016-11-09 22:02

As promised, Microsoft provided this Tuesday a patch for the Windows zero-day (CVE-2016-7855) actively exploited by the Strontium (aka Pawn Storm) cyber espionage hacking group. The initial...

Google Releases Supplemental Patch for Dirty Cow Vulnerability (Threatpost)
2016-11-08 18:38

Google’s November Android Security Bulletin patched 15 critical vulnerabilities, but only a supplemental patch for the Dirty Cow Linux vulnerability.

Post-pumpkin Patch Tuesday: What’s in store for November (Help Net Security)
2016-11-03 15:35

There has been a lot of activity since October’s Patch Tuesday. During that short period of time, Oracle released its quarterly CPU, including an update for Java JRE; Adobe resolved a zero-day in...