Monday, January 23rd, 2017
The Chrome browser extension for Cisco Systems WebEx communications and collaboration service was just updated to fix a vulnerability that leaves all 20 million users susceptible to drive-by attacks that can be carried out by just about any website they visit.
A combination of factors makes the vulnerabilities among the most ...
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Saturday, December 10th, 2016
In a major setback for Netgear, it appears that at least two of its high-end routers may contain a severe security flaw according to an advisory issued by CERT.
The vulnerability itself is incredibly easy to leverage and simply relies upon accessing a specially crafted URL in the following format from ...
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2016
Developers with both Mozilla and Tor have published browser updates that patch a critical Firefox vulnerability being actively exploited to deanonymize people using the privacy service.
"The security flaw responsible for this urgent release is already actively exploited on Windows systems," a Tor official wrote in an advisory published Wednesday afternoon. ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2016
Sometimes Linux users can be smug about their system's security. And sometimes a major hole that's been hiding in Linux since about version 2.6 opens up and in you fall.
The security hole this time is with how almost all Linux distributions implement Linux Unified Key Setup-on-disk-format (LUKS). LUKS is the ...
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2016
Google has disclosed to the public the existence of a Windows zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-7855) that is being actively exploited in the wild.
According to Neel Mehta and Billy Leonard, of the Google Threat Analysis Group, it’s a local privilege escalation in the Windows kernel that can be used as a security ...
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