Dino Dai Zovi on Return-Oriented Exploitation and Bug Bounties

Dennis Fisher talks with independent security researcher Dino Dai Zovi about his upcoming Black Hat talk on return-oriented exploitation, the value of exploit mitigations such as DEP and ASLR, the new crop of vendor bug bounties and why we don’t have any good data on zero-day attacks. Podcast aud...

Adobe Warns of Flash, PDF Zero Day Attack

Adobe issued an alert late Friday night to warn about zero-day attacks against an unpatched vulnerability in its Reader and Flash Player software products. The vulnerability, described as critical, affects Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris...

Java Zero-Day Attacks In The Wild

Just days after Google researcher Tavis Ormandy released details on a dangerous new Java vulnerability, malicious hackers have pounced and are exploiting the flaw in the wild to launch drive-by download attacks. Virus hunters have spotted the attacks on a popular song lyrics Web site. Any visitor...

Security Skeletons in Adobe's Closet

We all know what happens when a software vendor downplays the severity of a security vulnerability. It usually comes back to haunt them, when the vulnerability is eventually discovered by the bad guys and used to exploit innocent computer users. Microsoft, Apple and even Mozilla have all been...

Microsoft: Emergency IE Patch Coming

Microsoft has started dropping broad hints that an emergency patch for Internet Explorer will be released very soon to counter targeted attacks and the publication of exploit code for a “browse and you’re owned” vulnerability in its flagship Web browser. UPDATE: Here is the official confirmation...

Adobe Flash Attacks Underway; Harden PDF Reader Immediately

Malicious hackers have found a new vulnerability in Adobe’s ever-present Flash software and are using rigged PDF documents to launch exploits against Windows targets. The Adobe Flash Player flaw, which is currently unpatched, affects millions of Windows XP and Windows Vista users. Adobe has...

Adobe under fire for poor security response

In the wake of the zero-day attacks against Adobe’s Acrobat and Reader product lines, the company is taking a lot of flack for its poor response to handling the issue — specifically around communicating the risks and providing migitation guidance for end users. Over on the ZDNet Zero Day blog, I...

Microsoft Security Advisory (929433) Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution

Microsoft Security Advisory 929433 Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution Published: December 5, 2006 Top of sectionTop of section Microsoft is investigating a new report of limited “zero-day” attacks using a vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002,...

Microsoft Security Advisory (925984) Vulnerability in PowerPoint Could Allow Remote Code Execution

Microsoft Security Advisory 925984 Vulnerability in PowerPoint Could Allow Remote Code Execution Published: September 27, 2006 Microsoft is investigating new public reports of limited “zero-day” attacks using a vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, Microsoft Offic...