Firewall penetration testing examines the firewall as a security control and identifies the weaknesses that allow unwanted traffic to reach internal systems.  It helps to make the network secure by ...

Six zero-day flaws being exploited are now patched — users urged to update immediately Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday release addresses roughly 60 vulnerabilities overall. Microsoft has confirmed that ...

Hackers are targeting developers by exploiting the critical vulnerability CVE-2025-11953 in the Metro server for React Native to deliver malicious payloads for Windows and Linux. On Windows, an ...

Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) says that Russian hackers are exploiting CVE-2026-21509, a recently patched vulnerability in multiple versions of Microsoft Office. On January 26, ...

A handful of European government agencies have been compromised by hackers in recent weeks, thanks to a new round of critical vulnerabilities in an Ivanti product — and it's another grim reminder of ...

Attackers abused a signed but long-revoked EnCase Windows kernel driver in a BYOVD attack to terminate all security tools. In a recent incident, attackers abused a legitimate but vulnerable Windows ...

Google has released a security update to patch a newly discovered zero-day in Chrome and the company warned an exploit exists in the wild. The update, published on February 13, was accompanied by an ...

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Russian-state hackers wasted no time exploiting a critical Microsoft Office vulnerability that allowed them to compromise the devices inside diplomatic, maritime, and transport organizations in more ...

Attackers are already actively exploiting six of the 59 vulnerabilities Microsoft disclosed in its latest security update, meaning security teams will need to treat February's Patch Tuesday more as an ...

Within days of Microsoft patching a critical Office zero-day, the Russia-linked group “APT28” was already exploiting the flaw in a live campaign tracked as Operation Neusploit. Russia-linked attackers ...