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An anonymous security researcher going by the name of SandboxEscaper today publicly shared a second zero-day exploit that can be used to byp...

An anonymous hacker with an online alias "SandboxEscaper" today released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for a new zero-day...

Mark J Cox, one of the founding members of the Apache Software Foundation and the OpenSSL project, today posted a tweet warning users ab...

Ubuntu and some other Linux distributions suffer from a severe privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker or a m...

Apple has finally released iOS 12.1.4 software update to patch the terrible Group FaceTime privacy bug that could have allowed an Apple ...

Security researchers have discovered three vulnerabilities in Systemd, a popular init system and service manager for most Linux operating...

Hold tight, this may blow your mind… A low-privileged user account on most Linux operating systems with UID value anything greater than...

An Indian security researcher has discovered a highly critical flaw in X.Org Server package that impacts OpenBSD and most Linux distributi...

A cybersecurity researcher with Google Project Zero has released the details, and a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a high severity vul...

Security researchers have published the details and proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits of an integer overflow vulnerability in the Linux ker...

A high-severity vulnerability has been discovered in 4G-based wireless 4GEE Mini modem sold by mobile operator EE that could allow an att...

A security researcher has publicly disclosed the details of a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft's Windows op...

Adobe has released August 2018 security patch updates for a total of 11 vulnerabilities in its products, two of which are rated as critica...

A security researcher on New Year's eve made public the details of an unpatched security vulnerability in Apple's macOS operating...

Security researchers have discovered a new privilege-escalation vulnerability in Linux kernel that could allow a local attacker to execut...

A bug in Linux kernel that was discovered two years ago, but was not considered a security threat at that time, has now been recognised a...

As part of this month's Patch Tuesday , Microsoft has released security patches for a serious privilege escalation vulnerability whic...

Update: Find working Exploits and Proof-of-Concepts at the bottom of this article. Security researchers have discovered more than a d...

Another privilege-escalation vulnerability has been discovered in Linux kernel that dates back to 2005 and affects major distro of the L...

In Brief Microsoft has issued its first Patch Tuesday for 2017 , and it's one of the smallest ever monthly patch releases for the ...