Tag Archive for: Exploits

Cisco: Flash exploits are soaring

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Cisco is reporting that successful exploits of Flash vulnerabilities are soaring, partly because they are rapidly being incorporated in kits that take advantage of the flaws as well as because enterprises aren’t patching fast enough, which leaves them open to attack.

For the first five months of 2015, the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project has reported 62 Adobe Flash Player vulnerabilities that resulted in code execution on user machines, Cisco says in its 2015 Midyear Security Report.

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BitTorrent exploits allow lone hackers to launch large DDoS attacks – ZDNet

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BitTorrent exploits allow lone hackers to launch large DDoS attacks
ZDNet
In turn, this can result in websites and online services unable to cope with a flood of requests, denying access to legitimate users and taking sites offline until the flow of traffic dissipates — all caused with fewer slave machines and without the …

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RSA: Fight attackers by making software revisions so quickly, exploits could be evaded

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The future of software security may be revisions so frequent that attackers don’t have time to figure out where the vulnerabilities are before the potential attack surface has morphed to something else, RSA Conference 2015 attendees were told by CISO of an investment non-profit that funds companies built on technology developed for the CIA.

Perhaps network defenders need to take advantage of what University of Pennsylvania researchers call the honeymoon effect, where new software goes unmolested for a period after it is issued while adversaries analyze it for flaws, says Dan Geer, CISO of In-Q-Tel. With enough revisions, software is never in place long enough to fall prey to exploits, he says.

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Are you tired of weak or fake zero-day exploits? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]

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