Sentences with phrase «did exploit the vulnerability»

It has no knowledge that anyone ever actually did exploit the vulnerability.

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«It does seem that these vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely and rather trivially.»

It is a reason to exploit the relative vulnerability of people who do not know their rights and struggle to articulate themselves in English.

What all these cases had in common was that researchers exploited vulnerabilities in the publishers» computerized systems to dupe editors into accepting manuscripts, often by doing their own reviews.

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.

At times lost in translation is the fact that many security vulnerabilities can be exploited by only the most sophisticated hackers who have the time, will and financial incentive to do this.

Once the vulnerability became public, the Taiwan based manufacturer of smartphones quickly changed its tune and issued a statement to popular Engadget blog which acknowledged the security hole saying «that while this HTC software itself does no harm to customers» data, there is a vulnerability that could potentially be exploited by a malicious third - party application.»

Hackers are exploiting an unpatched Flash Player vulnerability, Adobe warns (PC World) Why aren't we done with Adobe Flash yet?

``... we needed to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever... It's a social validation feedback loop... You're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology... [The inventors] understood this, consciously, and we did it anyway.»

Are there any statues that would prevent John Doe from publishing this vulnerability and documenting the specific steps involved in exploiting it?

There does not seem to be any immediate danger to someone having exploited these vulnerabilities, but the likelihood increases with each passing day.

Now, «it's vulnerabilities are going to be exploited,» but we don't see that.

This isn't impossible to do, but much fewer security vulnerabilities have been discovered and exploited in Adobe Reader since the sandbox was introduced.

That doesn't mean that we don't have to address the development of those kinds of technologies and potentially find their vulnerabilities and exploit those vulnerabilities.

For the record, Rashid insists that while the firmware does indeed mitigate the risks involved, there might be a chance the vulnerability could still be exploited.

To ensure similar exploits do not go unchecked in the future, the software giant has announced a new bug bounty program focused on speculative execution attacks and vulnerabilities.

Other phones, however — and some carriers — don't allow you to unlock your bootloader the official way, which means you have to wait for developers to exploit a security vulnerability if you want to root and flash ROMs.

«The marketing doesn't reveal just what iOS vulnerabilities GrayKey exploits to unlock iPhones.

In fact, we recommend everyone also use a good anti-malware and anti-exploit app like MalwareBytes in addition to antivirus — it'll help protect you from against exploits and vulnerabilities that antivirus apps don't cover, which are arguably more prevalent on the web today.

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.

At press time, it does not appear as though the vulnerability was ever exploited or even noticed by users.

Again, Microsoft notes that the vulnerability is being actively exploited although it didn't provide any further details on the matter.

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.

It is always positive to see technology giants patch security vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by assailants, and Microsoft has done exactly that.

«If a potential adversary is making the systems and software that you use,» P.W. Singer, author of Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know, told The Verge, «you don't just have dependency, but also potential vulnerability that can be exploited not just now, but years into the future.»

While the vulnerability doesn't sound like it was the easiest to exploit, it has once again raised questions over the safety of smart home devices and Internet of Things products in general.

«If a potential adversary is making the systems and software that you use,» he says, «you don't just have dependency, but also potential vulnerability that can be exploited not just now, but years into the future.»

This has a lot to do with the security features Google has in place to stop apps from entering or remaining active on the Play Store that could exploit these vulnerabilities in the first place.

If the vendor is unable or does not fix the issue or provide a reasonable statement as to why the vulnerability is not fixed, ZDI publishes an advisory with additional details about the exploits in an effort to protect the public.

The exact details of how the vulnerability exploit works aren't available yet, but Artenstein and Google did provide a few hints.

As long as the app requested high - level permissions (which users often don't even check before installing), the app could then exploit the vulnerability and install whatever kind of harmful apps it wanted on the system.