Cisco finds new Zero-Day Exploit linked to NSA Hackers

Network equipment vendor Cisco is finally warning its customers of another zero-day vulnerability the company discovered in the trove of NSA’s hacking exploits and implants leaked by the group calling itself “The Shadow Brokers.”

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Microsoft and Adobe Rolls Out Critical Security Updates – Patch Now!

In BriefYou should not miss this month’s Patch Updates, as it brings fixes for critical issues in Adobe Flash Player, iOS, Xcode, the Apple Watch, Windows, Internet Explorer, and the Edge browser.

Adobe has rolled out a critical update to address several issues, most of which are Remote Code Execution flaws, in its widely-used Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and ChromeOS.

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It’s the Simple Things: Getting the Basics Right Can Solve Complex Security Issues

Instead of concentrating on zero-day threats, security teams should focus on preventing common, simple attacks to solve complex security issues.

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Blackhat Firm Offers $500,000 for Zero-day iOS Exploit; Double Than Apple’s Highest Bounty

Last week, Apple finally announced a bug bounty program for researchers and white hat hackers to find and get paid for reporting details of zero-day vulnerabilities in its software and devices.

The company offers the biggest payout of $200,000, which … Continue reading Blackhat Firm Offers $500,000 for Zero-day iOS Exploit; Double Than Apple’s Highest Bounty

PornHub Pays Hackers $20,000 to Find Zero-day Flaws in its Website

Cyber attacks get bigger, smarter, more damaging.

P*rnHub launched its bug bounty program two months ago to encourage hackers and bug bounty hunters to find and responsibly report flaws in its services and get rewarded.

Now, it turns out that the world’s most popular p*rn*graphy site has paid its first bounty payout. But how much?

US $20,000!
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Yes, P*rnHub has paid $20,000

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Hackers Selling Unpatched Microsoft Windows Zero-Day Exploit for $90,000

How much a Windows zero-day exploit that affects all versions of Windows operating system costs on the black market?

It’s $95,000, at least, for the one recently spotted by security researchers.

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Chrome Defaults to HTML5 over Adobe Flash Starting in Q4

Google has announced that hacker-favorite Adobe Flash Player will no longer, as of Q4, be the default in Chrome. Instead, Chrome will default to HTML5. Continue reading Chrome Defaults to HTML5 over Adobe Flash Starting in Q4

Warning — Widely Popular ImageMagick Tool Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution

A serious zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in ImageMagick, a widely popular software tool used by a large number of websites to process user’s photos, which could allow hackers to execute malicious code remotely on servers.

ImageMagick is an open-source image processing library that lets users resize, scale, crop, watermarking and tweak images.

The ImageMagick tool is supported by

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Mac OS X Zero-Day Exploit Can Bypass Apple’s Latest Protection Feature

A critical zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in all versions of Apple’s OS X operating system that allows hackers to exploit the company’s newest protection feature and steal sensitive data from affected devices.

With the release of OS X El Capitan, Apple introduced a security protection feature to the OS X kernel called System Integrity Protection (SIP). The feature is designed

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