That will not help Flash to get rid of its reputation for Swiss cheese. Three zero day vulnerabilities have been discovered, one after anot...
That will not help Flash to get rid of its reputation for Swiss cheese. Three zero day vulnerabilities have been discovered, one after another, through hacking of security firm Hacking Team ...
Who lives by the sword will perish by the sword. A priori, the same is partially true for the hack. Hacking Team, the Italian firm specializing in monitoring tools has been the victim of an attack last week that exposed numerous data.
Two zero-day Vulns for the price of one
In the middle of last week, this information allowed to update a zero-day Vulns in Flash software, as Italian engineers used to hack their targets. It is now two zero-day vulnerabilities, always in Flash, which have just been discovered. True to their name, these Vulns has not been fixed yet.
Last week, it took about 24 hours to correct the first Adobe flaw that had already been integrated into exploit kits used by malicious hackers around the world ...
The first of two zero-day vulnerabilities was recognized by Adobe early last weekend. The patch should be provided in the course of this week. Meanwhile, be careful that you use a computer running Windows, Linux or Mac OS X. The exploit can be easily used on these three platforms to operate as a malware ... The second of the two Vulns is also critical and runs on same principle.
The security experts at Trend Micro, who raised these two Vulns, indicate to monitor the network diligently to see if one of those Vulns is already used for attacks.
Four Vulns in everything, for now
In all likelihood, this vulnerability was provided by Hacking Team to its clients so they can take control remotely of third-party machines. It allows the installation of malicious software discreetly after a single visit to a website.
Additionally, security researchers peeling 400 GB of stolen data to Hacking Team found another zero day vulnerability in Windows this time. When we know that there is a real black market for the purchase of zero-day vulnerabilities and that they are generally quite rare, discover four quick succession is quite disturbing.
If the summer is hot outside, it is also in cyberspace. More than ever take the time to keep your computer up to date ...
Firefox blocked Flash (temporarily)
Firefox has made its decision for the Flash after all that has happened to block flash temporarily in order to protect its users and this decision has come by an Adobe Alert according to Firefox on its tweet
We are committed to protecting our users from security risks. That's why–following an Adobe alert–we temporarily blocked #Flash in Firefox.
— Firefox (@firefox) July 14, 2015
