As part of Patch Tuesday Adobe patched a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player the company claims is being used in targeted attacks against Internet Explorer users on Windows.

Mozilla released a new version of Firefox on Wednesday to address a zero day vulnerability that was actively being exploited to de-anonymize Tor Browser users.

Banks in Asia and Africa have been targeted with exploits for a zero-day vulnerability in InPage publishing software popular in Arabic-speaking nations.

Adobe again released a security update for Flash Player, patching nine remote code execution vulnerabilities. Adobe Connect for Windows was also updated.

The Shadowbrokers dumped lists of hacked servers compromised by the Equation Group and allegedly used in its campaigns.

The news of the week is discussed, including Schneier’s DDoS article, a patched IE/Edge zero day, a new OS X malware detection method, and Google’s Project Zero prize.

Microsoft this week patched a zero-day vulnerability in the Internet Explorer and Edge browsers being used in the AdGholas malvertising campaign.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the Shadow Brokers debacle, the VeraCrypt audit, Pokemon ransomware, and a browser address bar vulnerability. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_August_19_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

A serious hardware vulnerability, thought to be confined to UEFI drivers in Lenovo and HP laptops, has also been found in firmware running on motherboards sold by Gigabyte. The flaw was publicly disclosed last week by researcher Dmytro Oleksiuk. No patches are yet available. Related Posts Threatpost News Wrap, June 17, 2016 June 17, 2016...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including a password issue at Github, the xDedic marketplace, another Flash zero day, and how the poorly the FBI is doing with facial recognition software. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_June_17_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves