Category Archives: Zero Day

Instead of waiting until zero-day exploits to happen, how to preemptively find zero-day vulnerabilities in order to deter zero-day exploits?

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Instead of waiting until zero-day exploits to happen, how to preemptively find zero-day vulnerabilities in order to deter zero-day exploits? There has to be a better way.

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The Proliferation of Zero-days

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The MIT Technology Review is reporting that 2021 is a blockbuster year for zero-day exploits:

One contributing factor in the higher rate of reported zero-days is the rapid global proliferation of hacking tools.

Powerful groups are all pouring heaps of cash into zero-days to use for themselves — and they’re reaping the rewards.

At the top of the food chain are the government-sponsored hackers. China alone is suspected to be responsible for nine zero-days this year, says Jared Semrau, a director of vulnerability and exploitation at the American cybersecurity firm FireEye Mandiant. The US and its allies clearly possess some of the most …

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Smashing Security podcast #243: Breaking news, Apple zero-clicks, and bad blood

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A Walmart press release says it’s jumping aboard the cryptocurrency bus – but is it true? Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes goes on trial, and have you updated your Apple gadgets to protect against the latest NSO Group spyware attack?

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