Adobe releases security updates for 59 bugs affecting its core products, including Adobe Acrobat Reader, XMP Toolkit SDK and Photoshop. Adobe is urging its throngs of Acrobat Reader users to update their software to fix critical vulnerabilities that could allow adversaries to execute arbitrary code on unpatched versions. The warnings are part of the firm’s September […]
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Author: Elizabeth Montalbano Dubbed OMIGOD, a series of vulnerabilities in the Open Management Infrastructure used in Azure on Linux demonstrate hidden security threats, researchers said. Four Microsoft zero-day vulnerabilities in the Azure cloud platform’s Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) — a software that many don’t know is embedded in a host of services — show that […]
Abuse of flaw could give attackers greater access to devices even than its owner A zero-click (https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/vulnerabilities) in a popular IoT security camera could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain full access to the device and possibly internal networks, a researcher has warned. The researcher, dubbed ‘Watchful IP’, has released details of the unauthenticated remote […]
By Sergiu Gatlan An ongoing Zloader campaign uses a new infection chain to disable Microsoft Defender Antivirus (formerly Windows Defender) on victims’ computers to evade detection. According to Microsoft’s stats, Microsoft Defender Antivirus is the anti-malware solution pre-installed on more than 1 billion systems running Windows 10. The attackers have also changed the malware delivery vector from spam or phishing […]
Disclosure comes two years after privacy-busting flaw was discovered A zero-day vulnerability in Virgin Media Super Hub 3 routers enables attackers to unmask the true IP addresses of (https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/vpn) users, security researchers have revealed. Fidus Information Security, a UK (https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/pen-testing) consultancy, has published details of the flaw nearly two years after first alerting Virgin Media, […]