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Critical Zero-Day Flaw in macOS Reveals Passwords in Plaintext
2017-09-26 22:22:53| Extremetech
There's a critical zero-day bug in macOS High Sierra, Sierra, and El Capitan. It allows attackers to export data from Apple's Keychain in plaintext, with the user none the wiser. The post Critical Zero-Day Flaw in macOS Reveals Passwords in Plaintext appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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Zero-Day Hunters Offer $500K For iOS Bugs
2016-08-11 20:01:19| PC Magazine Security Product Guide
Exodus Intelligence announced its bug bounty days after Apple began awarding up to $200,000 for flaws.
Zero-Day Hunters Offer $500K For iOS Bugs
2016-08-11 18:03:01| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Exodus Intelligence announced its bug bounty days after Apple began awarding up to $200,000 for flaws.
Zero-Day Flaw Puts Millions of Linux Machines, Android Devices at Risk
2016-01-21 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Tens of millions of Linux PCs and servers, as well as 66 percent of all Android mobile devices, are vulnerable to a zero-day flaw that could allow users with lower-level privileges to gain root access, according to Perception Point, which announced its discovery last week. The local privilege escalation vulnerability, which affects Linux Kernel v3.8 and higher, has existed since 2012, the firm said.
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Backspace Flaw Enables Linux Zero-Day Attack
2015-12-28 20:20:59| TechNewsWorld
Researchers last week revealed a zero-day flaw that lets attackers take over a Linux system by pressing the backspace key repeatedly. Pressing backspace 17 to 20 times will overwrite the highest byte of the return address of the grub_memset() function, ultimately causing a reboot by redirecting control flow to the 0x00eb53e8 address, according to the Cybersecurity Group at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia.
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