zero-day vulnerability

CVE-2018-15982- Adobe Flash Player use after free (Zero Day) vulnerability alert!

Prashant Tilekar / 7 years
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The recent zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-15982 in Adobe Flash Player enables attackers to perform a Remote Code Execution on targeted machines. Adobe has released a security advisory APSB18-42 on December 5, 2018 to address this issue. According to Adobe, the in-wild exploit is being used in targeted attacks. Vulnerable Versions Adobe Flash Player 31.0.0.153 and earlier […]

eBay faces a major hack and other security news

Adithya Omanakuttan / 12 years
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In massive security news this last week, eBay was hacked on a large scale. This is the dominant story emanating from IT circles in the week gone by, and all else pales in comparison. During the hack, large databases of user passwords were also stolen and this is a rather alarming state of affairs. If […]

This Week’s Latest News and Updates on Information Security

Sakshat Karkare / 12 years
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3 min read

Official PHP Website Falls Prey to Hackers Did you recently visit the official website of the open-source PHP programming language? Let’s hope you did not. News are up that the site has been compromised, and is being used to drop a Trojan horse onto systems used to visit the site. Reportedly, from the 22nd to […]