A security researcher has publicly disclosed the details of a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft’s Windows operating system that could help a local user or malicious program obtain system privileges on the targeted machine. And guess what? The zero-day flaw has been confirmed working on a “fully-patched 64-bit Windows 10 system.” The vulnerability
Zero-Day Vulnerability
by Paul Ducklin At the recent DEF CON cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, macOS security researcher Patrick Wardle did something that the responsible disclosure doctrine says is a bit naughty. He “dropped 0day” on Apple’s macOS, meaning that he publicly revealed an exploit for which no patch is yet available. Exploits against unpatched vulnerabilities are
Your Mac computer running the Apple’s latest High Sierra operating system can be hacked by tweaking just two lines of code, a researcher demonstrated at the Def Con security conference on Sunday. Patrick Wardle, an ex-NSA hacker and now Chief Research Officer of Digita Security, uncovered a critical zero-day vulnerability in the macOS operating system