Rig Exploit Kit 3.0 Claims 1 Million Malvertising Victims

LAS VEGAS – A rampant malvertising campaign fueled by a new version of the Rig Exploit Kit has claimed at least 950,000 victims worldwide and is doing so with an unprecedented success rate. Researchers at Trustwave said in advance of this week’s Black Hat conference that they have been watching...

Windows XP Security Support Ends

Yes, there are still some rather large organizations maintaining their investments in Windows XP, as we recently learned when an unclassified U.S. Navy document showed that it had extended a support contract with Microsoft for two more years meaning that its systems will continue to receive XP...

July 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Microsoft has patched a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows kernel uncovered and exploited by Hacking Team. The zero day was found among the 400 GB of data stolen from the Italian surveillance software maker and posted online July 5. A trio of Adobe Flash Player zero days were also uncovered...

Mozilla Disables Flash in Firefox

As the zero days in Adobe Flash continue to pile up, Mozilla has taken the unusual step of disabling by default all versions of Flash in Firefox. The move is a temporary one as Adobe prepares to patch two vulnerabilities in Flash that were discovered as a result of the HackingTeam document dump...

Hacking Team Promises to Rebuild RCS

The aftermath of the Hacking Team attack raised legitimate questions about the controversial Italian surveillance software vendor’s long-term viability. With reams of sensitive internal data and intellectual property posted online, how could the company survive? For now, however, the company seem...

Zero-Day Exploits for Stealing OS X and iOS Passwords

I think you'll agree with me when I say: Apple devices are often considered to be more safe and secure than other devices that run on platforms like Windows and Android, but a recent study will make you think twice before making this statement. A group of security researchers have uncovered...

Video: Vitaly Kamluk on The Equation Group APT

Kaspersky Lab’s global research and analysis team uncovered what they claim is the most sophisticated advanced persistent threat group yet known. Known as the Equation Group, researchers led by GReAT director Costin Raiu say the threat actors have been operating for 15 years or more and are known...

Chinese Hackers Compromised Forbes.com Using IE, Flash Zero Days

A Chinese APT group was able to chain together two zero day vulnerabilities, one against Adobe’s Flash Player and one against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9, to compromise a popular news site late last year. The group’s aim was to gain access to computers at several U.S. defense and financial...

Apple OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 Update to Patch years-old Thunderstrike vulnerability

Apple is preparing to release the second update to OS X Yosemite in the coming days to its customers. The upcoming beta update OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 contains a patch for the Thunderstrike vulnerability that allows malware to be injected into Macs via the Thunderbolt port. Earlier this month,...

Google reveals 3 Apple OS X Zero-day Vulnerabilities

After exposing three critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Windows operating systems, Google's Project Zero vulnerability research program has revealed the existence of three more zero-day vulnerabilities, but this time, on Apple's OS X platform. The team has published three zero-day...

Firms Detail Zero Days Targeting Windows Kernel

After they were patched in yesterday’s round of Patch Tuesday security bulletins, security firms have begun to peel back the layers on two zero-day vulnerabilities that are being used in limited, targeted attacks against Microsoft’s Windows Kernel. According to FireEye, one of the firms that...

DEF CON SOHOpelessly Broken Router Hacking Contest

It’s becoming cliché to say it’s trivial to pop a small office or home router. Vendors are making it easy, since most are interested in cramming features such as print, file and media servers into these boxes and less so on basic security measures. Therefore, it sometimes helps to illustrate the...

August 2014 Adobe Patch Tuesday security updates

Adobe today released an out-of-band patch for a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat that has been leveraged in targeted attacks. Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team director Costin Raiu is credited with reporting the vulnerability. Details were not announced, but Raiu...

Researchers Demonstrate Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Tails Operating System

The critical zero-day security flaws, discovered in the privacy and security dedicated Linux-based Tails operating system by the researcher at Exodus Intelligence that could help attackers or law enforcements to de-anonymize anyone’s identity, actually lie in the I2P software that’s bundled with...

Announcing Project Zero

Posted by Chris Evans, Researcher Herder Security is a top priority for Google. We’ve invested a lot in making our products secure, including strong SSL encryption by default for Search, Gmail and Drive, as well as encrypting data moving between our data centers. Beyond securing our own products,...

EFF Sues NSA, ODNI Over Zero-Day Disclosure Processes

The Electronic Frontier Foundation wants a peek behind the curtain of the government’s Vulnerabilities Equities Process. The advocacy group on Tuesday filed a Freedom of Information Act FOIA lawsuit against the National Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence hopin...

Supermicro IPMI BMCs plaintext passwords exposed

Much has been written about the insecurity of the IPMI protocol present inside embedded baseboard management controllers BMCs. Serious vulnerabilities can be exploited to gain remote control over big servers running BMCs, in particular in hosting environments where the controllers help admins wit...

Former NSA Director Addresses Crypto Standard Subversion

During the last 11 months of mounting leaks and revelations about the government’s surveillance operations and the lengths it will go to gain intelligence on foreign threats, perhaps the most disturbing revelation was the intentional subversion of widely used cryptographic standards. It’s also be...

The White House and Zero Day Sleight of Hand

The White House wants you to know that it did not know about the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability before you did. The White House also wants you to know that administration officials don’t think stockpiling zero days isn’t necessarily good for national security. That’s all well and good, except...

Unpatched Bugs, Windows XP End of Life and Public Disclosure

Windows XP security support ends Tuesday and until now, most of the public hand-wringing over XP’s end-of-life has been about the potential for malware outbreaks against unpatched vulnerabilities that have been stockpiled by hackers anxiously awaiting April 8, 2014. But what about vulnerabilities...