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“It’s not enough to amend terms and conditions, as Facebook and Google did in response to GDPR,” explains Martin Gontovnikas, VP of developer relations at Identity-as-a-Service platform Auth0. “Users are still scrolling through hundreds of lines of tex…
Continue ReadingThe expansion comes after the company has paid out almost all of its $10m bounty fund that it started with at launch in April, and expansion of its customer base and the number of researchers that supply it with zero day exploits. Crowdfense also succe…
Continue ReadingDiscovered: December 09, 2018 Updated: December 10, 2018 2:19:09 AM Type: Trojan Systems Affected: Mac OSX.Trojan.Gen.2 is a generic detection for many individual but varied OS X Trojans for which specific definitions have not been created. A generic d…
Continue ReadingA researcher published exploit code for a vulnerability in WebKit, the web browser engine that powers Apple’s Safari, along with other apps on macOS, iOS, and Linux. The exploit takes advantage of an optimization error with WebKit’s matching of regular…
Continue ReadingPosted by Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure on Dec 07 APPLE-SA-2018-12-05-4 Safari 12.0.2 Safari 12.0.2 is now available and addresses the following: Safari Available for: macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, and macOS Mojave 10.14.
Continue ReadingDo you still use Adobe’s Flash Player? Maybe not as much as before, right? Browser makers are all trying their best to finally lay Flash on its deathbed. Its decline has been a slow but steady downward spiral since it is a perennial target for hackers …
Continue Readingon December 7, 2018 0 It was only a few days ago that we learned about a sandbox escape PoC for iOS 12.0-12.0.1 , and while it was just a proof of concept, there’s always the potential that a talented hacker could make use of it for future endeavors; p…
Continue ReadingOne strange story to emerge as part of the recent midterm elections was Intel’s release of a piece of federal legislation . This story got somewhat buried amid all the talk of migrant caravans, healthcare reform and the Democrats gaining control of the…
Continue ReadingA vulnerability was found in Apple macOS up to 10.14.1 . It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component WindowServer . The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is class…
Continue ReadingA vulnerability was found in Apple macOS up to 10.14.1 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Kernel . The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare …
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