Kaspersky Lab found that the Silverlight zero-day-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, Kaspersky Lab found in the Silverlight application in the presence of a dangerous zero-day vulnerabilities, millions of users pose a security risk. On Wednesday, in a blog post, the network security company Kaspersky said the vulnerability would allow an attacker to gain access to the...

Hackers Find A Way To Disable Car Airbags System

Car Hacking is a hot topic today. Today, many automobiles companies are offering vehicles that run on the mostly drive-by-wire system, which means that a majority of car's functions are electronically controlled, from instrument cluster to steering, brakes, and accelerator. No doubt these...

How to Detect IE Zero-day Exploit Used to Deploy Korplug Malware

Recently, Microsoft issued an Emergency patch for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is being exploited to deploy Korplug malware on vulnerable PCs. Korplug, a known variant of PlugX, is a Trojan that creates a backdoor used for information stealing on infected computers. In one o...

Apple OS X Zero Day Remains Unpatched

A recently disclosed kernel-level zero-day vulnerability in Mac OS X Yosemite and Mavericks remains unpatched, though reports say Apple is developing and testing a patch. Luca Todesco, an 18-year-old security researcher from Italy, on Sunday dropped details and proof-of-concept code about the...

Wekby APT 18 Exploiting Hacking Team Flash Zero Day

The Wekby APT group, implicated in a number of targeted attacks against health care organizations such as Community Health Systems and major pharmaceutical companies, is reportedly making use of the Adobe Flash Player zero-day found in the Hacking Team data dump. According to Virginia-based...

Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Magento Vulnerability to Steal Your Credit Cards

Hackers are increasingly exploiting an unknown flaw to siphon payment card information from e-commerce websites that use Magento, the most popular e-commerce platform owned by eBay. Security researchers at Sucuri are still investigating the attack vector, but they believe that cyber criminals are...

Adobe Releases Emergency Patch for Flash Zero-Day Vulnerability

Adobe has rolled out an emergency software patch for its Flash Player to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability that is already exploited by the hackers in the wild. The company said the flaw could potentially allow hackers to take control of the affected system and that it had evidence of...

Wassenaar, Bug Bounties and Vulnerability Rewards Programs

Bug bounties have gone from novelty to necessity, not only for enterprises looking to take advantage of the skills of an organized pool of vulnerability hunters, but also for a slew of independent researchers who make a living contributing to various vendor and independent bounty and reward...

APT Group Embeds C&C Data on TechNet Pages

The so-called Deputy Dog APT group has surfaced again with a means of keeping its command and control servers under wraps that involves Microsoft’s TechNet online resources. New research published last week by Microsoft and FireEye revealed targeted attacks against organizations have been...

WordPress Sites Backdoored, Leaking Credentials

WordPress site administrators just cannot come up for air. With a raft of WordPress vulnerabilities—most of them in plugins—to address, now comes word that a number of sites running the content management system have been compromised and are sending credentials via a backdoor to a criminal group...

Seagate Confirms NAS Zero Day, Won't Patch Until May

Seagate, over the weekend, confirmed the zero-day vulnerability in its Seagate Business Storage 2-Bay NAS boxes disclosed March 1. But in the same breath, told customers exposed to the vulnerability that a patch is still two months away. “For those customers who choose to keep their networks open...

WordPress Plugin Zero-Day Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Sites

A critical zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in a popular WordPress plugin, called 'FancyBox for WordPress', which is being used by hundreds of thousands of websites running on the most popular Blogging Platform Wordpress. 0-DAY FLAW EXPLOITED IN THE WILD The security researchers at...

Another Unpatched Adobe Flash Zero-Day vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Warning for Adobe users! Another zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in Adobe Flash Player that is actively being exploited by cyber crooks in drive-by download attacks, security researchers warned today. This is for the third time in last few weeks when Adobe is dealing with a zero day...

Adobe Auto-Update Flash Player Zero Day Patch

Adobe on Saturday began patching a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player, exploits for which have been included in the notorious Angler Exploit Kit. This is the second of two previously unreported critical flaws in the software that have been patched in the last five days. Adobe last Thursday se...

Adobe patches 2nd Flash Player Zero-day Vulnerability

Ready to patch your Adobe Flash software now. Adobe has patched one after one two zero-day vulnerabilities in its Adobe Flash that are being actively exploited by the cyber criminals. PATCH FOR FIRST ZERO-DAY On Thursday, the company released an emergency update for one of the critical...

Google Apps Flaw Allowed Hacker to Hijack Account and Disable Two-factor Authentication

A critical cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Google Apps administrator console allowed cyber criminals to force a Google Apps admins to execute just about any request on the domain. The Google Apps admin console allows administrators to manage their organization’s account...

Google vs. Microsoft — Google reveals Third unpatched Zero-Day Vulnerability in Windows

Microsoft has heavily criticized Google and its 90-days security disclosure policy after the firm publicly revealed two zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 operating system one after one just days before Microsoft planned to issue a patch to kill the bugs. But, seemingly Google...

2015 Computer Security Risks and Trends to Watch

P4ssw0rds got you down? POODLEs Bashing you over the head giving you Heartbleed? Well, bad puns aside, 2014 was a rough year and you can surely expect more of the same in 2015—with a few new twists. Hackers will still chase credit card numbers and point-of-sale systems, but they’ve got their eye ...

Microsoft Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability "CVE-2014-4114" Used to Hack NATO

Once again a Russian cyber espionage group has gained media attention by exploiting a Zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows operating system to spy on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO, Ukrainian and Polish government agencies, and a variety of sensitive European industries over...

Bash Botnet Exploit Found, Bash Patches Incomplete

The urgency to patch systems against the Bash zero-day vulnerability has been cranked to 10 after reports of an exploit in the wild have been made public by AusCERT, the Computer Emergency Response Team of Australia. This seems to reflect a similar finding posted by a researcher who goes by the...