Items tagged with Exploits
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Zak Killian - Sat, Aug 17, 2024
This one's important, so let's get right to it: a new security flaw in all versions of Windows opens the door for a wormable remote code execution vulnerability. That means it can be exploited by an automated worm with zero user...
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Nathan Wasson - Tue, Feb 01, 2022
Back in 2018, a team of security researchers from Akamai released a white paper detailing a malicious proxy system they dubbed UPnProxy that is now being leveraged in a new attack. The malicious proxy system draws its name from Universal...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Mar 11, 2016
It seems as though most (if not all) Internet users are awaiting the day when Adobe Flash is finally eradicated from the face of the earth. The Adobe Flash Player plugin has long been a security liability, resource nightmare and battery...
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Rob Williams - Sat, Feb 02, 2013
If our not-too-subtle hint a couple of weeks ago about the perils of having Java installed wasn't enough to convince you to uninstall, you should waste no time in heading on over to the official site and grabbing the latest version (7u13)...
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Daniel A. Begun - Thu, Mar 19, 2009
No less than three different browser platforms have succumbed to zero-day exploits by the end of the first day of the three-day long, third-annual Pwn2Own contest being held at the CanSecWest 2009 digital security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Safari on Mac OS X was the first to...
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Michael Santo - Tue, Oct 09, 2007
How many times have you forgotten to lock your car, or a door? While that's bad enough, what about essentially leaving a back door open for hackers, by "forgetting" about an old administrative system?A hacker infiltrated an eBay server and disabled accounts of several members on Friday. Representatives of eBay say that the hacker used vestigial...
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