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Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the back and forth around whether or not TeamViewer was hacked, the fallout around the years-old MySpace and Tumblr breaches, and a 90K Windows zero day.
Hackers claim to have unearthed a zero-day vulnerability giving attackers admin rights to any Windows machine from Windows 2000 to a fully patched version of Windows 10. The zero day is for sale on the black market for $90,000. Security experts say the zero-day exploit looks legitimate and in the wrong hands could be an...
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including zero day vulnerabilities–both in Adobe Flash and Windows, a nasty vulnerability in SAP business applications, Mozilla asking FBI to disclose a Tor exploit, and more. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_May_13_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves
More than 100 North American companies were attacked by crooks exploiting a Windows zero day vulnerability. The attacks began in early March and involved the zero day vulnerability (CVE-2016-0167) reported and partially fixed in April’s Patch Tuesday security bulletins by Microsoft. The zero day was found by researchers at FireEye, who on Tuesday disclosed details. FireEye said...
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news, including the Linux zero day–how it was patched in Android, Twitter users sent nation state messages that are still looking for answers, and bot fraud. Download: news_wrap_01-08-16.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news, including a critical flaw patched by OpenSSH, the curious tale behind a Silverlight zero day, and how to turn a hacked webcam into a backdoor. Download: news_wrap_01-08-16.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves
3 November 2015 - 11:27,
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A controversial hacking company recently ran a competition offering $3m for up to three click-to-own exploits against Apple’s iOS. The exploits would be sold on to “eligible customers” only. The competition is now closed, but one exploit apparently met the grade and will earn $1,000,000. We investigate: what “click-to-own” means, why exploits of this sort...
23 September 2015 - 10:20,
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A new security company known as Zerodium has come up with a 7-figure way to make a very loud splash as it enters the field. It’s got $1 million (about £651,000) in bug bounty money burning a hole in its pocket, and it’s looking to spend it on what’s thought to be the biggest bounty...