• Jan 10, 2020
  • Caleb Chen
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments,

US government urges everyone to update Mozilla Firefox to v72.0.1 because of an active exploit that allows remote code execution

The US government’s Department of Homeland Security is urging all Firefox users to update to v72.0.1 as soon as possible. Earlier this week, a zero day vulnerability was found in the then most current version of the Firefox browser by Mozilla which allows hackers to take over your computer. What’s more, this 0day was found … Continue reading “US government urges everyone to update Mozilla Firefox to v72.0.1 because of an active exploit that allows remote code execution”

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  • Sep 21, 2018
  • James Gallagher
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments,

Vulnerability Acquisition Companies are Stockpiling 0-days and Selling Them to Governments Rather Than Allowing Them to be Patched

Last week, a so-called vulnerability acquisition company by the name of Zerodium disclosed a Tor Browser 0-day vulnerability to the public, in an apparent PR stunt. As you may know, 0-days are security bugs which have been discovered but not yet revealed to the developers responsible for patching. The 0-day disclosed by Zerodium was for … Continue reading “Vulnerability Acquisition Companies are Stockpiling 0-days and Selling Them to Governments Rather Than Allowing Them to be Patched”

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