Cisco finds new Zero-Day Exploit linked to NSA Hackers

Network equipment vendor Cisco is finally warning its customers of another zero-day vulnerability the company discovered in the trove of NSA's hacking exploits and implants leaked by the group calling itself "The Shadow Brokers." Last month, the Shadow Brokers published firewall exploits, implant...

On Schneier's DDoS Article, OS X Malware Detection, and Patches

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including Schneier’s DDoS article, a patched IE/Edge zero day, a new OS X malware detection method, and Google’s Project Zero prize. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapSeptember162016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Microsoft Patches Zero Day Used in AdGholas Malvertising Campaigns

An attack group behind a long-running malvertising campaign made effective use of a previously unreported low-level vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Edge browsers to rake in money via banking Trojans and ad fraud. Microsoft patched the zero-day this week among dozens of other...

Apple iOS < 10.0.1 Kernel Memory Information Disclosure (Trident)

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flashplugin: multiple issues

CVE-2016-4274, CVE-2016-4275, CVE-2016-4276, CVE-2016-4280, CVE-2016-4281, CVE-2016-4282, CVE-2016-4283, CVE-2016-4284, CVE-2016-4285, CVE-2016-6922, CVE-2016-6924 arbitrary code execution Multiple Memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution have been found...

Microsoft and Adobe Rolls Out Critical Security Updates - Patch Now!

In Brief You should not miss this month’s Patch Updates, as it brings fixes for critical issues in Adobe Flash Player, iOS, Xcode, the Apple Watch, Windows, Internet Explorer, and the Edge browser. Adobe has rolled out a critical update to address several issues, most of which are Remote Code...

New MySQL Zero Days — Hacking Website Databases

Two critical zero-day vulnerabilities have been discovered in the world's 2nd most popular database management software MySQL that could allow an attacker to take full control over the database. Polish security researcher Dawid Golunski has discovered two zero-days, CVE-2016-6662 and CVE-2016-666...

Update your Mac OS X — Apple has released Important Security Updates

If you own a Mac laptop or desktop, you need to update your system right now. It turns out that the critical zero-day security vulnerabilities disclosed last week, which targeted iPhone and iPad users, affect Mac users as well. Late last week, Apple rolled out iOS 9.3.5 update to patch a total of...

IPhone zero-day exploit or by hacking recommended that the user update the system-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The iPhone iOS operating system, there are 3 security vulnerabilities are“zero day”, it will be one sophisticated spyware use of to a particular iPhone user to launch a sustained attack. Apple to this rapid reaction, for security vulnerabilities carried out a System Repair. The researchers...

Apple iOS < 9.3.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Trident)

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Emergency iOS Update Patches Zero Days Used by Government Spyware

Apple rushed an emergency iOS update today after the discovery of three zero-day vulnerabilities used by governments to spy on the activities of human rights activists and journalists. The zero days, called Trident, allow an attacker to take complete control of an iPhone or iPad with just one...

Apple releases 'Emergency' Patch after Advanced Spyware Targets Human Rights Activist

Apple has released iOS 9.3.5 update for iPhones and iPads to patch three zero-day vulnerabilities after a piece of spyware found targeting the iPhone used by a renowned UAE human rights defender, Ahmed Mansoor. One of the world's most invasive software weapon distributors, called the NSO Group, h...

Cisco Begins Patching Equation Group ASA Zero Day

Cisco today began the process of patching a zero-day vulnerability in its Adaptive Security Appliance ASA software exposed in the ShadowBrokers data dump. Users on affected versions of ASA, 7.2, and 8.0 through 8.7, are urged to migrate soon to 9.1.79 or later. Newer versions that are also...

Cisco Acknowledges ASA Zero Day Exposed by ShadowBrokers

Cisco has quickly provided a workaround for one of two vulnerabilities that was disclosed in the ShadowBrokers’ data dump and issued an advisory on the other, which was patched in 2011, in order to raise awareness among its customers. The networking giant today released advisories saying that it...

Someone is Spying on Researchers Behind VeraCrypt Security Audit

After TrueCrypt mysteriously discontinued itself, VeraCrypt became the most popular open source disk encryption software used by activists, journalists, and privacy conscious people. Due to the huge popularity of VeraCrypt, security researchers from the OSTIF The Open Source Technology Improvemen...

Blackhat Firm Offers $500,000 for Zero-day iOS Exploit; Double Than Apple’s Highest Bounty

Last week, Apple finally announced a bug bounty program for researchers and white hat hackers to find and get paid for reporting details of zero-day vulnerabilities in its software and devices. The company offers the biggest payout of $200,000, which is 10 times the maximum reward that Google...

Putting Apple Bug Bounty Rewards in Perspective

Admittedly, the payouts for Apple’s bug bounty announced last week at Black Hat drew mixed reactions ranging from reasonable to raucously funny. Apple made a big splash at the annual hacker conference, first via a last-minute announcement that well-regarded Ivan Krstic would be giving a talk on...

iOS 9.3.4 Patches Critical Code Execution Flaw

Apple last week patched a critical iOS memory corruption vulnerability that could allow attackers to execute code on compromised devices. The flaw was found by Team Pangu, a Chinese hacker group that specializes in building iOS jailbreak tools. The vulnerability is fixed in iOS 9.3.4. “An...

Siemens SINEMA Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Update A)

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-16-215-02 Siemens SINEMA Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability that was published August 2, 2016, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. --------- Begin Update A Part 1 of 2 -------- Security researcher rgod working...

Buffer overflow in ClearKey Content Decryption Module (CDM) during video playback — Mozilla

An anonymous security researcher working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative reported a buffer overflow in the ClearKey Content Decryption Module CDM used by the Encrypted Media Extensions EME API. This vulnerability can be triggered using a malformed video file due to incorrect error handling...