Monthly Archives: July 2019
Windows Actively Exploited Privilege-Escalation Bugs
The software giant recently released important-level patches for two of the privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in Win32k and splwow64, which are being actively exploited in the wild. Qualys said that the patches, though labeled as important, should be quickly deployed as they could be chained with other vulnerabilities to provide the hacker with complete system access. In…
Mac Users Affected by Zero-Day Webcam Hijacking
The Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission. The flaw potentially exposes up to 4 million workers that use the Zoom for Mac web-and videoconferencing service. According to a researcher Jonathan Leitschuh (he noted that Mac users make up about 10 percent of Zoom’s customer base of 4+…