Accenture finds cocky infosec execs miss three targeted attacks each month
Are you confident in your abilities to secure the corporate network? You shouldn’t be, according to consultancy firm Accenture.
Are you confident in your abilities to secure the corporate network? You shouldn’t be, according to consultancy firm Accenture.
Adobe has released an update for a previously unseen flaw in Flash Player that attackers are using to hack Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 systems.
Despite its success, ransomware is relatively easy to detect and could be blocked in most cases if systems administrators took two simple steps, a Sophos security specialist has advised as the company debuted a tool designed to detect and stop new ransomware attacks in their tracks.
David Braue | 20 Sep | Read more
One of the nastiest exploit kits on the web has gone silent, causing speculation its operators may have called it quits or arrested.
Exploit broker Zerodium has offered up to $100,000 for an attack that bypasses anti-exploit mitigations for Flash Player.
How do you get high-end security-monitoring skills without the high-end price? Industrial giant BlueScope recently found out after its CSO worked with a key service provider to build a robust, |global security operations centre (SOC) using open-source components.
David Braue | 02 Nov | Read more
System76, a PC maker that ships systems with Linux distribution Ubuntu, has abandoned pre-installed Flash Player because of security concerns.
An exploit kit known as Angler is targeting a previously unseen flaw in the latest version of Flash Player, which Adobe only updated a week ago.
HP's annual Pwn2Own contest has been run and won. Critical flaws in every major browser, which allowed remote code execution, were found as well as issues with Adobe's Flash and Reader products. Pwn2Own is a hacker contest that runs within the CanSecWest event in Vancouver. Hackers are offered cash prizes as incentives as well as donations of computer hardware and other prizes given to the security researchers.
Anthony Caruana | 15 Mar | Read more
It’s been a tough month for Adobe, which has for the second time this month had to release an out of band patch to address flaws affecting its sandboxing implementations.
Security experts say Windows 8 is the most secure Microsoft OS to date, but that doesn't mean malware won't evolve to exploit it
Antone Gonsalves | 26 Oct | Read more
Exploits targeting bugs in Adobe’s Flash Player increased by more than 40 times in the three months after April, according to Microsoft.
Flash Player 11 should fix plenty of security holes, just like Adobe Reader X did a year ago. But Adobe's products will continue to be a target as long as people insist on running obsolete software.
Stilgherrian | 04 Oct | Read more
Adobe's Flash program is being used on heavily trafficked Web sites to collect information on how people navigate those sites even if people believe they've restricted the data collection, according to a new study.
Jeremy Kirk | 12 Aug | Read more
More than 9 out of every 10 Windows users are vulnerable to the Flash zero-day vulnerability that Adobe won't patch until Thursday, a Danish security company said today.
Gregg Keizer | 28 Jul | Read more