Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Apple and Adobe Zero Days, and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about all of the zero days that were dropped this week on Adobe and Apple, the Oracle backdoor drama and the upcoming Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit in Cancun. Then, Dennis calls Brian Donohue to talk about the wonders of the Blackhat movie and Brian’s dog...

Microsoft Re-Releases Broken Security Patch MS14-045

Microsoft today re-released security bulletin MS14-045, which was pulled shortly after the August Patch Tuesday updates because a number of users reported crashes and blue screens. The patch was removed from Windows Update on Aug. 15, three days after it was released as part of Microsoft’s monthl...

August 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Microsoft today released its monthly Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins, and the top priority is another cumulative update for Internet Explorer; this one patches 26 vulnerabilities, including one that’s been publicly reported, Microsoft said, and is likely being exploited. All of them are rated...

Researchers Plan to Disclose Critical Bugs to TAILS Team Soon

The developers of the TAILS operating system are poised to release a new version of the software–which is designed to preserve privacy and anonymity–and it includes several security fixes. However, there are several other security issues that aren’t patched in the new release, vulnerabilities...

Windows XP End of Life Breeding FUD, Legit Concerns

For those of you anticipating the start of a Walking Dead-style malware apocalypse next Tuesday, calm yourselves. The official end of security support for Windows XP is upon us, but it’s important to check some anxiety at the door and keep some perspective. “I’ve been a forensics investigator 14...

Ryan Naraine on Virus Bulletin 2013, Zero Days and Cyberwarfare

Dennis Fisher talks with Ryan Naraine about the news from the Virus Bulletin 2013 conference, whether the use of zero days is overrated and the collateral damage that can result from cyberwarfare attacks. Download: digitalunderground128.mp3...

Mobile Pwn2Own Offers $300k For Zero Days

It’s a good time to be a security researcher. If you have the time and talent to find vulnerabilities in widely deployed applications, there is a lot of money out there for the taking, and not just from the bug bounty programs and regular exploit buyers. The latest iteration of the Pwn2Own hackin...

Java Reflection API Vulnerability Exploited

No Java component has had a bigger bull’s eye on its back this year than the Java Reflection API. Bug hunters and hackers alike have found a number of zero-days related to the Reflection API, most of which enable the remote execution of code outside the Java sandbox that’s supposed to prevent suc...

Oracle Delays Java 8 Features for Security Overhaul

It’s not quite the development freeze Microsoft underwent during the Trustworthy Computing push, but it’s a start for Oracle, which will delay the release of Java 8 until Q1 of next year, largely because the platform and browser plug-in is such a security disaster. This year has done nothing but...

Internet Explorer 8 Exploit Found in Watering Hole Campaign Targeting Chinese Dissidents

On March 16th, we discovered a premeditated waterhole campaign that hosts exploits and malware on websites frequented by a specific target group. In this case the target includes Chinese dissidents. For the attacker, this approach is highly attractive since it is very difficult to discover the...

Emergency Adobe Flash Player Patches Fix Pair of Zero Days

Exploits targeting two previously unreported flaws in Flash Player prompted Adobe to release an emergency patch yesterday. One of the attacks is targeting aerospace and other manufacturing companies, and is being delivered via infected Microsoft Office documents. The other is being carried out ov...

Adobe's Security Chief Talks About Driving Up The Cost of Exploits

Threatpost editor Paul Roberts talks with Adobe’s Senior Director of Product Security and Privacy, Brad Arkin on patch management, driving up the cost of exploits and the amount of manpower that goes into recovering from zero days...

Microsoft going to patch 22 bugs, 3 zero-days !

Microsoft today said it will affair 12 aegis updates abutting anniversary to application 22 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer IE, Windows, its Internet server and Visio, the company's abstracts diagramming tool. The aggregation additionally appear it will accommodate patches abutting Tuesday f...

On Stuxnet, the ASP.NET Vulnerability and the Return of Unofficial Patches

Threatpost editors Dennis Fisher and Paul Roberts talk about the revelation that Stuxnet included four previously unknown flaws, the padding oracle attack on ASP.NET Web apps and the return of unofficial patches for zero days. audio http://www.threatpost.com/sites/default/files/newswrap23.mp3...

Google Attack Was Tip of the Iceberg

The recent disclosure by Google, Adobe and other companies that their networks had been thoroughly compromised by attackers who may have been after their source code has prompted a tremendous amount of discourse both in the security community and in the general public about the political and...