Deluge of Apple Patches Fix Vulnerabilities in OS X, iOS, Safari, and More

In addition to fixing the serious crypto vulnerabilities in iMessage that surfaced yesterday, Apple also deployed patches for nearly all of its products, including Safari, OS X, iOS, Apple TV’s tvOS, and watchOS. The iOS update, 9.3, is arguably the most pressing given the cryptographic issue dug...

Pwn2Own Day Two: Safari, Microsoft Edge Go Down Winner Announced

In the end, it was a nail-biter pitting Tencent Security Team Sniper KeenLab and PC Manager against JungHoon Lee lokihardt for the title of Master of Pwn for Pwn2Own 2016. After a tense last two minutes of the competition, it was Tencent Security Team Sniper and its successful code execution of a...

Safari, Flash Fall at Pwn2Own 2016 Day One

Apple Safari and Adobe Flash have proved to be Pwn2Own 2016’s biggest punching bags so far—hackers took down both, earning $282,500 in prizes at the first day of the annual hacking challenge in Vancouver on Wednesday. There were four successful attempts, one partial, and one failed attempt at the...

Microsoft Windows 7 (x64) - afd.sys Dangling Pointer Privilege Escalation (MS14-040)

Microsoft Windows 7 x64 - afd.sys Dangling Pointer Privilege Escalation MS14-040 Exploit Title: MS14-040 - AFD.SYS Dangling Pointer Date: 2016-03-03 Exploit Author: Rick Larabee Vendor Homepage: www.microsoft.com Version: Windows 7, 64 bit Tested on: Win7 x64 afd.sys - 6.1.7601.17514 ntdll.dll -...

Microsoft Windows 7 (x64) - 'afd.sys' Dangling Pointer Privilege Escalation (MS14-040)

Exploit Title: MS14-040 - AFD.SYS Dangling Pointer Date: 2016-03-03 Exploit Author: Rick Larabee Vendor Homepage: www.microsoft.com Version: Windows 7, 64 bit Tested on: Win7 x64 afd.sys - 6.1.7601.17514 ntdll.dll - 6.1.7601.17514 CVE : CVE-2014-1767 Category: Local Privilege Escalation Reference...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Week in News: Chinese Sanctions, Doing Away with RC4, and Mobile Pwn2Own

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the potential US sanctions against China over cyberespionage, the browser vendors dumping RC4, the trouble at Mobile Pwn2Own and more security news of the week. Download: digitalunderground218.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Citing Wassenaar, HP Pulls out of Mobile Pwn2Own

More evidence of the potential chilling effect the Wassenaar Arrangement could have on security research surfaced this week when it was revealed HP has decided not to take part in November’s Mobile Pwn2Own hacking contest in Japan. Dragos Ruiu, who organizes the CanSecWest and PacSecWest...

(Pwn2Own) Adobe Reader Portfolio Preview Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows attackers to elevate privileges on vulnerable installations of Adobe Reader. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw occurs within the handling of Portfolio...

Hacking Team attack code analysis Part 2: a Pwn2Own vulnerability of the fantasy drifting-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Before we analyze the HackingTeam leaked data in the Flash 0day bytearray 0day。 And in the leaked data, we've also seen another one called convolutionfilter flash exploit that. Look at this flash exploit, and soon realized that this vulnerability is a already patched the vulnerability, cve-2 0 1...

Hacking Team Flash Zero Day Weaponized in Exploit Kits

Handlers for three major exploit kits have managed to utilize in short order a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player uncovered among the 400 Gb of data stolen from Hacking Team. Experts, including French researcher Kafeine and a number of others from security companies, revealed last night...

(Pwn2Own) Apple OS X XSS Sandbox Bypass Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple OS X. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within certain URLs in the...

(Mobile Pwn2Own) Amazon App Store JavaScript Bridge Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on Amazon Fire Phone. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the methods that were exposed to the...

(Pwn2Own) Google Chrome pnacl Shared Memory Time-Of-Check/Time-Of-Use Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Google Chrome. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of...

April 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Microsoft has patched a critical vulnerability in the Windows HTTP protocol stack, known as HTTP.sys, which could have devastating consequences once it’s inevitably publicly exploited. The bulletin, MS15-034, is one of four critical bulletins issued today by Microsoft. Experts warn that exploitin...

(Pwn2Own) Mozilla Firefox resource: URL Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Mozilla Firefox. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of...

Security update for MozillaFirefox (important)

MozillaFirefox was updated to Firefox 36.0.4 to fix two critical security issues found during Pwn2Own: MFSA 2015-28/CVE-2015-0818 bmo1144988 Privilege escalation through SVG navigation MFSA 2015-29/CVE-2015-0817 bmo1145255 Code execution through incorrect JavaScript bounds checking elimination Al...

Mozilla official rushed to repair the Pwn2Own contest on the disclosure of the Firefox browser vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

3 on 1 8 March, the world's top hacker contest Pwn2Own2015 in Vancouver, Canada, opened the Battle screen, and the brightest great God recount, Mariusz Mlynski in a very short period of time compromised the Firefox get 3 0 0 0 0 $ a huge bonus. And Mozilla official at the end of the game...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-2015-263)

MozillaFirefox was updated to Firefox 36.0.4 to fix two critical security issues found during Pwn2Own : - MFSA 2015-28/CVE-2015-0818 bmo1144988 Privilege escalation through SVG navigation - MFSA 2015-29/CVE-2015-0817 bmo1145255 Code execution through incorrect JavaScript bounds checking eliminati...

SUSE-SU-2015:0593-1 Security update for Mozilla Firefox

MozillaFirefox was updated to the 31.5.3ESR release to fix two security vulnerabilities: MFSA 2015-29 / CVE-2015-0817: Security researcher ilxu1a reported, through HP Zero Day Initiative's Pwn2Own contest, a flaw in Mozilla's implementation of typed array bounds checking in JavaScript just-in-tim...

Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE – All Browsers Hacked at Pwn2Own Competition

The Annual Pwn2Own Hacking Competition 2015 held in Vancouver is over and participants from all over the world nabbed $557,500 in bug bounties for 21 critical bugs in top four web browsers as well as Windows OS, Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash. During the second and final day of this year’s hacking...