Security News

Researcher releases exploit for OS X 0-day that gives root access (Help Net Security)
2015-08-18 10:27

Italian security researcher Luca Todesco has published PoC exploit code for a newly discovered zero-day privilege escalation flaw affecting OS X Yosemite (v10.10) and Mavericks (v10.9). Symantec e...

Hackers actively exploiting OS X zero-day to root machines, deliver adware (Help Net Security)
2015-08-04 10:15

Attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the latest version of Apple's OS. The bug's existence has been publicly revealed last month by Security resear...

Apple OS X zero-day flaw hands over root access without system passwords (ZDNet)
2015-08-04 07:18

Bug in OS X Yosemite allows attackers to gain root access (Help Net Security)
2015-07-23 12:42

Security researcher Stefan Esser has revealed the existence of a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), and has provided a working proof of concept local exploit that inst...

Bug in latest version of OS X gives attackers unfettered root privileges (ArsTechnica)
2015-07-22 19:12

Microsoft quietly pushes 18 new trusted root certificates (Reddit)
2015-06-29 01:14

CVE-2015-1328: incorrect permission checks in overlayfs, ubuntu local root (Reddit)
2015-06-16 06:11

Let's Encrypt Root and Intermediate Certificates (Reddit)
2015-06-05 00:17

CVE-2015-3459 - Hospira Lifecare PCA infusion pump (the thing by hospital beds that pump medication into IVs) does not require authentication for Telnet sessions, which allows remote attackers to gain root privileges (Reddit)
2015-05-04 19:04

Automate root cause prevention of network compromise (Help Net Security)
2015-04-24 11:15

FireMon announced at RSA Conference 2015 significant advancement of its core platform through the introduction of Security Manager 8.0, which leverages highly automated analysis and monitoring of secu...