Research teams at the Pwn2Own 2020 competition successfully exploited 13 software vulnerabilities this past week, including bugs found in products from Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle and Ubuntu. Participants earned $270,000 over the two-day event — the first Pwn2Own ever to be held virtually, as a measure to combat the rapid
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Adobe Patch Tuesday: Critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player, Framemaker patched
Adobe conducted a large-scale rollout of security updates for a variety of its products for February Patch Tuesday, including a critical patch for Flash Player that if exploited could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Joining Adobe Flash Player in receiving security updates are Framemaker, Acrobat Reader and DC, Digital
Google app vulnerability being exploited in the wild: Trend Micro
The Sidewinder APT group has been actively abusing a Binder vulnerability in at least three apps found in the Google Play store. The three apps, all file manager and photography tools, were uploaded starting in March 2019, but have since been removed. The apps involved are Camero, FileCrypt and callCam. The vulnerability effects several Android devices,
No, Spotify, you shouldn’t have sent mysterious USB drives to journalists
Hardware Review: Live Your Life As A Giant With The Tiny 8BitDo Zero 2 Controller
Itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie yellow Switch controller keyring.What's more fun than playing some of your favourite games on the Switch? If your answer is something along the lines of 'struggling to hold the controller', then you're in luck, as 8BitDo has finally come around to producing a follow up to their dinky
Momentum botnet spotted in the wild
A new botnet dubbed Momentum has been found targeting Linux systems running on a variety of different processors and pushing a list of well-known backdoors with the goal of being able to launch DDoS attacks. Trend Micro reported Momentum has been found launching Mirai, Kaiten and Bashlite variants in a series of attacks that use a
Patch Tuesday: Adobe announces 25 bug fixes, 21 in Acrobat products
On the last Patch Tuesday of 2019, Adobe today released security updates for Acrobat and Acrobat Reader, Photoshop CC, Brackets and ColdFusion, fixing 25 critical and important vulnerabilities in the process. Twenty-one of the flaws were found in various Acrobat and Acrobat Reader products for the Windows and macOS platforms. Of
Microsoft announces public preview of Microsoft Teams for Linux
Today, Microsoft announced a public preview of Microsoft Teams for Linux, the first Office 365 tool that’s available for the open source operating system. The hope is that by making it available for preview, the company can get feedback from the community and improve it before it becomes generally available.
Magecart skimmer group guns for Smith & Wesson’s Black Friday sales
The e-commerce website of weapons manufacturer Smith & Wesson has been targeted by a Magecart payment card-skimming group that’s been using lookalike domain names to impersonate payment anti-fraud company Sanguine Security. The Smith & Wesson website was compromised with a JavaScript-based skimmer last Wednesday, Nov. 27 – in time to steal
Making sense of a multi-cloud, hybrid world at KubeCon
More than 12,000 attendees gathered this week in San Diego to discuss all things containers, Kubernetes and cloud-native at KubeCon. Kubernetes, the container orchestration tool, turned five this year, and the technology appears to be reaching a maturity phase where it accelerates beyond early adopters to reach a more mainstream