Sentences with phrase «attackers exploited a vulnerability»

Though the researchers don't report evidence of attackers exploiting the vulnerability, Sweeney, Yoo and Zang said the fear is that it might be used to either undermine confidence in elections or even to swing the result in favor of a particular candidate.

And it seems the attackers exploited the vulnerability to steal thousands of dollars in BCH.

As one CoinKorea post points out, «the biggest problem is that if an attacker exploits the vulnerability, it can not be blocked by encryption or vaccination.»

Not exact matches

Last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a security notice warning that «an attacker with a low skill would be able to exploit these vulnerabilities» using known weaknesses that exist in older Windows software.

Qihoo listed 9 vulnerabilities in products that the attacker (or attackers) appears to be actively exploiting, including webcams made by companies like AVTech, GoAhead, and Vacron, and routers made by D - Link, Cisco's (csco) Linksys, and Netgear.

Dubbed «voter identity theft» by study authors Latanya Sweeney, Professor of Government and Technology in Residence, research analyst Ji Su Yoo and graduate student Jinyan Zang, the vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to attempt to disenfranchise many voters where voter registration information can be changed online.

In the hope of preventing attackers from exploiting the vulnerability, Sweeney, Yoo and Zang notified election officials from the vulnerable states of their findings prior to publication, attended a national convention of such officials to discuss the findings, and will hold a workshop, to which election officials have been invited.

Adobe has confirmed an exploit in the latest version of the Flash 10.1 runtime which has the potential for malicious code to take control of a machine or device with the software installed. The company has issued the following statement: «This vulnerability could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of -LSB-...]

An attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit this vulnerability through Internet Explorer and then convince a user to view the website.

If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system.

By exploiting this vulnerability, attackers could access sensitive data, compromising the security of the server and its users.

Even though no compromises have actually occurred, the FTC asserted the risk that attackers would exploit these vulnerabilities to harm consumers was significant and that by creating these vulnerabilities, D - Link put consumers at significant risk of harm.

An attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit this vulnerability through Internet Explorer and then convince a user to view the website.

Today, Google Project Zero published details of a class of vulnerabilities which can be exploited by speculative execution side - channel These techniques can be used via JavaScript code running in the browser, which may allow attackers to gain access to memory... Read more

In a July 31 security bulletin it vaguely refers to a vulnerability found in the Lenovo Service Engine that found a way attackers could exploit the mechanism by using a malicious server to install software.

«Attackers can send specially crafted HTTP cookies that exploit the vulnerability to corrupt memory and alter the application state.

«51 % vulnerability:» Blockchain «relies on the distributed consensus mechanism to establish mutual trust.However, the consensus mechanism itself has 51 % vulnerability, which can be exploited by attackers to control the entire blockchain.

But while various fixes have since been implemented, the attacker continues to find vulnerabilities to exploit and, in turn, create new ways to launch denial - of - service (DoS) attacks.

«If someone, be it a security researcher, the FBI or a malicious attacker, discovers an exploitable vulnerability that allows them to attack the latest iOS release, they will need another, likely more sophisticated exploit to take that access to the next level to also exploit the secure enclave,» she told TechNewsWorld.

Attackers could use a malicious application that exploits the vulnerability in the background without the device owner's knowledge, Strazzere told TechNewsWorld.

An attacker can exploit these CPU vulnerabilities to expose extremely sensitive data in the protected kernel memory, including passwords, cryptographic keys, personal photos, emails, or any other data on your PC.

This feature offers users greater trading security as it eliminates the vulnerability a result of the acceptance window of transactions that could be exploited by attackers.

Experts have said that since the vulnerability would require an attacker to be authenticated to a virtual machine in order to carry out an exploit,... (continued)

As Gardner warned, it didn't take long for attackers to exploit one of the vulnerabilities: the first attacks happened shortly after the bugs were fixed.

Microsoft explains that with the use of speculative execution side - channel attacks, the vulnerabilities can be exploited when a JavaScript code is running in the browser, this allows the attackers to steal passwords.

The Galaxy S5 Neo Blueborne fix will prevent attackers from exploiting this vulnerability.

However, Google offered only a general description of the vulnerability, aiming to provide users with just enough details to recognize a potential attack but without paving the way for attackers to exploit the flaw.

hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com - Semiconductor giant AMD said today that attackers wouldn't likely abuse the vulnerabilities recently found in its products: they would need administrative access, and that kind of access would allow for far more effective attacks than the exploits at the center of the controversy.

It's also possible for a remote attacker on the Internet to design a malicious website that would exploit the same vulnerabilities without actually being on your home network.

securityaffairs.co - Security experts have discovered a vulnerability in the Spring Framework that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on applications built with it.

By exploiting vulnerabilities in the networks and software used by these enterprises, attackers could steal information related to the production process or even bring down manufacturing operations, leading to technogenic disaster.

«If real - time scanning is not enabled, the attacker would need to wait until a scheduled scan occurs for the vulnerability to be exploited.