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Google pays largest-ever bug bounty worth £500,000
News The company remained tight-lipped over the exploit itself, but speculation is possible given its publicly available rewards breakdown
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Windows 10 users locked out of devices by unskippable Microsoft 365 advert
News Entering payment information was the only way for some to enter their own PCs
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Spanish spyware outfit uncovered, develops exploits for Windows, Chrome, and Firefox
News Google was only able to discover the company after an anonymous submission was made to its Chrome bug reporting programme
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OpenSSL 3.0 vulnerability: Patch released for security scare
News The severity has been downgraded from 'critical' to 'high' and comparisons to Heartbleed have been quashed
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Hacker steals $566 million from Binance Bridge using proof-forgery exploit
News An exploit discovered in the exchange platform's proof verifier let the hacker take 2m BNB without raising alarm bells
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CISA issues fresh orders to polish security vulnerability detection in federal agencies
News The move marks the latest step in the cyber security authority's ongoing ambition to minimise the government's exposure to attacks
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Mozilla patches high-severity security flaws in new ‘speedy’ Firefox release
News Numerous vulnerabilities across Mozilla's products could potentially lead to code execution and system takeover
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WordPress plugin vulnerability leaves sites open to total takeover
News Customers on WordFence's paid tiers will get protection from the WPGate exploit right away, but those on the free-tier face a 30-day delay
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Numerous HP business laptops and desktops vulnerable to publicly disclosed security bugs
News Researchers revealed the details of the six vulnerabilities at Black Hat in August but many laptops, desktops, and workstations remain vulnerable
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HP patches high-severity security flaw in its own support tool
News The application that's installed in every HP desktop and notebook was allowing hackers to elevate privileges through a DLL hijacking vulnerability
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Zoom patches privilege escalation flaw for macOS users
News Threat actors were able to use the application’s updater to distribute malicious files at superuser level
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Dogwalk RCE variant among 121 vulnerabilities fixed in Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday
News The second-biggest security update released by Microsoft this year featured 17 critical-rated RCEs and privilege escalation bugs
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