Hacking

Using steganography to obfuscate PDF exploits

Experts discovered PDF exploit that was using steganography to hide malicious JavaScript code in images embedded in PDF files. The…

7 years ago

Local privilege escalation bug fixed in CheckPoint ZoneAlarm

Check Point released a security update to address a flaw in its ZoneAlarm security software that could allow privilege escalation.…

7 years ago

“Collection #1” Data Breach Analysis – Part 2

The cyber security expert Marco Ramilli continues its analysis of the data leak known as Collection #1, he shared some…

7 years ago

Microsoft Exchange zero-day and exploit could allow anyone to be an admin

The security expert Dirk-jan Mollema with Fox-IT discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange that could be exploited by…

8 years ago

DHS issues emergency Directive to prevent DNS hijacking attacks

DHS has issued a notice of a CISA emergency directive urging federal agencies of improving the security of government-managed domains…

8 years ago

Expert shares PoC exploit code for remote iOS 12 jailbreak On iPhone X

Researcher published a PoC exploit code for critical vulnerabilities that could be chained to implement an iOS jailbreak On iPhone…

8 years ago

PHP PEAR official site hacked, tainted package manager distributed for 6 months

PHP PEAR official site hacked, attackers replaced legitimate version of the package manager with a tainted version in the past…

8 years ago

Hacker threatened a family using a Nest Camera to broadcast a fake missile attack alert

Nest recommended the owners of its security cameras to use enhanced authentication to avoid being hacked as happened with a…

8 years ago

0patch releases unofficial security patches for 3 Windows flaws yet to be fixed

Researchers from 0patch, a community of experts that aims at addressing software flaws, released unofficial patches for three Windows vulnerabilities that…

8 years ago

Critical flaw in Linux APT package manager could allow remote hack

Expert discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in the APT package manager used by several Linux distributions, including Debian and…

8 years ago

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