Not exact matches
The documents that WikiLeaks is publishing are
not code or instructions to recreate an
exploit, but strongly suggest that the CIA had an arsenal of zero - days at some point — and if any organization can be expected to have a library of zero - day
vulnerabilities, it's the CIA.
But now it looks like WannaCry wasn't the first piece of malware in the wild to
exploit the «EternalBlue»
vulnerability.
The mere fact that the CIA may have
exploited zero - day [previously undisclosed]
vulnerabilities should
not surprise anyone,» said Knake, now at the Council on Foreign Relations.
It's
not about political party, it's
not about religion — people have seen a
vulnerability, they're
exploiting it —
not for «us», but for «them».
SNAP is
not the only issue on voters» minds, but opponents are quick to
exploit what they see as a potential
vulnerability.
It is a reason to
exploit the relative
vulnerability of people who do
not know their rights and struggle to articulate themselves in English.
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.
Middle managers
exploited vulnerabilities they identified in the organization to come up with ways to make it look like their workers were achieving goals when they weren't.»
To be clear, this isn't hacking or
exploiting vulnerabilities, instead it's mining the Internet for nuggets of personal data.
The full genetic delineation of multiple pathogenic strains is likely to
not only improve our understanding of their characteristics, but to find and
exploit their
vulnerabilities, said Palsson, the Galletti Professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego.
Right now there is
not much to worry about with this
vulnerability since there are no known
exploits in the wild beyond this proof of concept for Android v2.2 only.
Some critical Android
vulnerabilities — for example, one that can be easily and remotely
exploited with a publicly disclosed method to execute «root» privileged malware — simply can't wait for a monthly update cycle.
Hackers are
exploiting an unpatched Flash Player
vulnerability, Adobe warns (PC World) Why aren't we done with Adobe Flash yet?
It is certainly possible (maybe even probable) that in the past two years — since the creation of the «Heartbleed» code — a malicious hacker or espionage organization has been collecting and
exploiting the
vulnerability, but there isn't currently any evidence that this happened to anyone.
Isn't this this a violation of consumer protection laws,
exploiting my son's
vulnerability by using toys to lure him to eat nutritionally unbalanced meals that can lead to obesity?
«This Judgment may encourage criminal and other law enforcement bodies to
exploit a company's
vulnerability to adverse media and other reporting of wrongdoing by writing to, and requesting, the company to investigate the wrongdoing itself, pay for the entire cost of that investigation and then produce vast swathes of material generated by its investigation to the law enforcement body in question, whether it self - reports or
not.
Particularly in situations where a
vulnerability has been discovered, but it is
not clear whether it has been
exploited yet or
not.
When the
vulnerability is eventually discovered, by an industrious security researcher or otherwise, there will typically be no indication whether it has been
exploited yet or
not, even where it involves very sensitive financial information that would be highly useful for fraud and identity theft.
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.
Second, although
not as common as problems on consumer operating systems like Windows, there are
exploits and
vulnerabilities that crop up in router firmware, so it's always good to have the latest (and most secure) firmware available.
System updates patch known security
vulnerabilities, so if you're
not up to date you're leaving now - documented openings there for malware to potentially
exploit.
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.
This is more of a theoretical
vulnerability, as we're
not aware of anyone actively
exploiting it.
The
exploit itself, however, is
not being revealed for now in order to give Apple time to patch it (DVLabs says that the
vulnerability has been «responsibly disclosed» to the company and that Apple is already working on it).
Hacking Team's customers are government agencies, including both law enforcement and national security, and the ostensibly legal software it sells to help them intercept communications includes
not - yet -
exploited vulnerabilities, known as zero - days.
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.
Kaspersky said it has reported the
vulnerability to Telegram and has
not observed the
vulnerability being
exploited since.
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 root issues behind the
vulnerabilities weren't clearly defined at the time, but a slew of releases from several of the parties involved, along with Google's Project Zero team, have shed light on two new
exploits that have served as the catalyst for the recent developments.
«The marketing doesn't reveal just what iOS
vulnerabilities GrayKey
exploits to unlock iPhones.
Given all the unpatched Windows systems out there with
vulnerabilities that could be
exploited to gain additional privileges once the software is running on your computer, this wouldn't even require agreeing to a UAC prompt a lot of the time — although agreeing to that UAC prompt would certainly seal your fate, too.
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.
Microsoft hasn't spelled out all of them, but Windows 8 manages memory in a more secure way and includes features that make security
vulnerabilities harder to
exploit.
In order to keep the securities and
vulnerabilities from being
exploited, Samsung has
not unveiled them all as you would expect.
Real attacks have been demonstrated, so it's a real
vulnerability — but we haven't seen it
exploited by any actual malware in the wild yet.
The press release goes on to state that the company long ago stopped using Superfish, and it also claims «we are
not aware of any actual instances of a third party
exploiting the
vulnerabilities to gain access to a user's communications,» which is
not exactly reassuring.
Because jailbreaking isn't intended or supported by Apple, all jailbreaks are accomplished through finding a security
vulnerability in Apple's iOS operating system and
exploiting it.
According to Apple, unless a malicious app is running on the iOS or MacOS device, the
vulnerability can
not be
exploited.
At press time, it does
not appear as though the
vulnerability was ever
exploited or even noticed by users.
Additionally, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich told CNBC that he was «relatively confident» that the security
vulnerability had
not been
exploited and promised a fix was coming.
Again, Microsoft notes that the
vulnerability is being actively
exploited although it didn't provide any further details on the matter.
But while the files contain the «problematic program codes», Marx added he can't confirm that all of them successfully
exploit the
vulnerabilities.
Further, while this campaign and toolset are specific to the Hangul Word Processor, the
vulnerability it
exploited (CVE -2017-8291) is
not.
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.
The number of developers working on Bitcoin Unlimited and Bitcoin Classic is relatively small, and the code that included the
exploited vulnerability was merged after being reviewed by only one person —
not a lot for security - critical code protecting people's money.
«Similar
exploits in the future can
not be ruled out, and the effectiveness of ongoing protections is limited by the imagination of those attempting to anticipate potential
vulnerabilities,» he told TechNewsWorld.
«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.