TIFF Zero Day Missing From November Patch Tuesday Updates
Microsoft said today it will not patch a zero-day vulnerability disclosed this week being used in targeted attacks in the Middle East and Asia.
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Marketplace for Phony Twitter Followers is Big Business
Barracuda Networks’ latest research on the Twitter underground reveals a thriving market for phony accounts that are used for spam or to spread malware.
Microsoft: XP End of Life an Important Security Milestone
Microsoft is warning Windows XP users that once the operating system is no longer supported as of next April, their chances of being infected by malware will rise significantly.
Companies such as Apple and General Motors gave up crucial company information to social engineers during the annual Capture the Flag contest at Def Con.
The release of Mac OS X Mavericks includes Flash Player sandbox protection for the Safari browser.
NIST made public a provisional copy of the government’s cybersecurity framework and says it will accept public comment on the draft for the next 45 days.
Late last year the world’s largest social network announced that it would begin removing a popular privacy feature that let users regulate whether other users could search for and locate their profiles with the Facebook search function.
James Forshaw generally prefers finding bugs in code logic than memory corruption issues, but he admits he was incentivized by Microsoft’s $100,000 mitigation-bypass bounty.
Microsoft released a patch for a second zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer yesterday, one that caught administrators off-guard.
One day after announcing that it had paid researchers $28,000 for reporting a number of vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft revealed that it has written a much bigger check–this one for $100,000–to a researcher who has discovered a new attack technique that bypasses all of the exploit mitigations on the newest version of Windows.
