Zero day, Web browser vulnerabilities spike in 2014
The number of zero-day and Web browser vulnerabilities shot up in 2014, but overall software vendors are patching faster.
The number of zero-day and Web browser vulnerabilities shot up in 2014, but overall software vendors are patching faster.
Vulnerabilities with catchy nicknames get more attention from media, customers, and vendors and so get patched more thoroughly than similar vulnerabilities without clever names.
At least one of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates looks like an excellent candidate to hackers as they poke around for bugs in the now-retired Windows XP.
The popular Full-Disclosure mailing list that has served as a public discussion forum for vulnerability researchers for the past 12 years was suspended indefinitely by its maintainer.
Recently released security updates for the popular Joomla content management system (CMS) address a SQL injection vulnerability that poses a high risk and can be exploited to extract information from the databases of Joomla-based sites.