Abstract: Developing a remote exploit is not easy. It requires a comprehensive understanding of a vulnerability and delicate techniques to bypass defense mechanisms. As a result, attackers may prefer ...

Cisco Systems Inc. today warned that a suspected national-state actor has been actively targeting two previously unknown security vulnerabilities in Cisco products since November to breach government ...

A state-sponsored threat actor has launched a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign that exploits two vulnerabilities in Cisco firewall platforms, according to an advisory from Cisco Talos. The ...

Earlier in the year, Apple fixed several vulnerabilities, which, when exploited, allowed Operation Triangulation spyware to make its way onto devices with zero interaction required. Since then, ...

A sophisticated, two-phase attack that hides in PDF documents could be the first in a long line of exploits that target vulnerabilities in Adobe applications, researchers said this week. In a blog ...

Microsoft released two security advisories today. Security Advisory 968272, addresses an Excel exploit seen in small numbers in the wild and Security Advisory 967940 fixes an issue with Windows ...

The second part of this exploit is the shellcode. Without getting into too much detail, this shellcode downloads the real payload a Windows executable. The third part is the actual vulnerability ...

The decision by Internet Security Systems Inc. (ISS) research analyst Michael Lynn to speak at this week’s Black Hat USA conference about how unpatched Cisco routers can be remotely compromised has ...

Cisco this week asked that a presentation on how to hack its IOS router software be pulled from a security conference in Las Vegas. A presentation called “The Holy Grail: Cisco IOS Shellcode Remote ...

A new book by leading security researchers on writing code to exploit security flaws in software, including Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system, has caused some raised eyebrows in the technical ...