The ongoing battle over the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) use of a zero-day in the Tor anonymity browser hit a new gear this week with Mozilla filing a brief to get access to the vulnerability details.
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Adobe Patches Flash Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild
Adobe has updated Flash Player for Windows, Mac and Linux to address a total of 25 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day that has been exploited in the wild.
Flash Player 21.0.0.242 and 11.2.202.616 patch type confusion, use-aftre-free, buffer overflow, directory search path, and various memory corruption vulnerabilities that can lead to arbitrary code execution.
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Paying Not an Option When Ransomware Hits
The rapid rise of ransomware has made it the latest marquee threat in cybersecurity. The growth in victims and damages has been widely reported, with successful attacks being waged against organizations of all sizes and stripes. However, this trend has had a disproportionate impact on small and medium-sized businesses.
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Congress Blocks Yahoo Mail and Google Appspot
Congress is tightening security by controlling its users' access to certain cloud services. This includes blocking Yahoo Mail and applications running on Google's appspot.com domain.
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Panasonic Patches Flaws in PLC Programming Software
Panasonic has released an update for its FPWIN Pro application to patch several vulnerabilities identified by a researcher.
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VirusTotal Policy Change Rocks Anti-Malware Industry
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Continue readingWendy’s Breach Affects 300 Restaurants
The investigation conducted by fast food restaurant chain Wendy’s following reports of suspicious credit card activity is nearly completed, and the company has confirmed that some of its point-of-sale (PoS) systems have been breached.
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Google Patches More High Risk Vulnerabilities in Chrome 50
Google on Wednesday released yet another set of security patches for Chrome 50, resolving five vulnerabilities in the popular web browser, three of which were assigned a “High” severity score.
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Yahoo Rewards Researcher for ImageMagick Hack
Yahoo rewarded a bug bounty hunter after he demonstrated that a recently disclosed ImageMagick vulnerability could be exploited for remote code execution on a website acquired by the company last year.
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Clinton and Her Emails: A Saga Weighing on US Election
On March 14, 2012, at 4:44 am in Washington, Hillary Clinton's chief of staff received a CIA employee's email with the subject line: "URGENT — From Dave Petraeus's Chief of Staff."
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