The Internet Bug Bounty program, a cooperative effort among security experts and vendors, paid out its first $10,000 bounty this week for a serious Flash vulnerability. The flaw, which Adobe fixed in December, was a serious one that has been used in targeted attacks. Started in November, the Internet Bug Bounty is a system set […]
Duo Security acknowledged late last week that it had discovered a vulnerability in its Wordpress plugin that could allow a user to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) on a multisite network.
Cisco’s UCS Director infrastructure management product contains a set of default credentials that any remote attacker can exploit to take complete control of any vulnerable machine. The flaw is in UCS Director versions 4.0.0.2 and below. The Cisco UCS Director software is designed to allow administrators to manage a variety of storage, networking, virtualization and […]
There are at least two different groups running attacks exploiting the recently published zero day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 10, and researchers say one of the groups used the bug to impersonate a French aerospace manufacturer and compromise victims visiting the spoofed Web page.
Less than a week after the Moon worm, new and unrelated vulnerabilities have been reported in Linksys home and small office routers. Hackers can use a simple exploit to gain remote access to the boxes.
Researchers at IOActive found a series of vulnerabilities in the WeMo home automation products built by Belkin that enable them to gain remote control of connected devices, provide malicious firmware updates and gain access to the internal LAN.
A new campaign, dubbed Operation SnowMan, was been spotted leveraging a previously unknown zero-day in Internet Explorer 10 after the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars’ website was compromised this week.
Facebook has fixed Instagram to remedy a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that could’ve put some photos users thought were private, out in the open.
Adobe has announced it will release a patch for its Shockwave Player today to fix what it deems are critical vulnerabilities in the platform.
Implementing an effective detection system for attacks against cars may wind up being far more difficult than expected.
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