Software vendors are constantly on the watch for so-called "zero day" vulnerabilities--flaws in their code that hackers find and exploit before the first day companies become aware of them.

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This is the second Flash Player zero-day exploit discovered among the files and the third overall—researchers also found a zero-day exploit for a vulnerability in Windows.

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Three of the certificates came from the 2015 hack of Hacking Team, a developer of software exploits it sold to governments around the world.The remaining 10 have been available for years on a ...

Zero-day exploits are unknown vulnerabilities in software or hardware with no existing fix. The term “zero day” originates from the time remaining for a software vendor to patch buggy code.

Several US federal government agencies have been hit in a global cyberattack by Russian cybercriminals that exploits a vulnerability in widely used software, according to a top US cybersecurity ...