Zero Day

While one-liners have made many Hollywood films legendary, some one-liners in the IT world have brought systems down to their knees. Most recently this unpatched zero-day bug that can corrupt an NTFS-formatted hard-drive. Like Medusa in Greek mythology, if your Windows system sees the icon of this one-line command, it will turn to stone. …

A security researcher has discovered yet another zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that allows a user to read in unauthorized locations. The security researcher, known as SandboxEscaper on Twitter, has released details about the vulnerability that affects ReadFile.exe. The file allows reading data from specific locations. The same…

When performing a cyber attack simulation, Dropbox and security partner Syndis discovered three zero Day Apple exploits. Dropbox frequently performs cyber attack simulations in order to assess the security of their systems, and apply any changes needed to improve security. The security team at Dropbox have reported that they spend significant…

At the Pwn2Own competition as part of PacSec security conference held in Tokyo, iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S9, and Xiaomi Mi6 were all exploited at the hands of top white hat hackers. Day 1: Hacking team Fluoroacetate managed to hack the Xiaomi Mi6 via the NFC component. They exploited the touch-to-connect feature, opening a web browser on…