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Twelve-Year-Old Vulnerability Found in Windows Defender

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Researchers found, and Microsoft has patched, a vulnerability in Windows Defender that has been around for twelve years. There is no evidence that anyone has used the vulnerability during that time. The flaw, discovered by researchers at the security firm SentinelOne, showed up in a driver that Windows Defender …

Backdoor in Zyxel Firewalls and Gateways

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This is bad : More than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways, and access point controllers contain a hardcoded admin-level backdoor account that can grant attackers root access to devices via either the SSH interface or the web administration panel. [...] Installing patches removes the backdoor account, which, according to Eye …

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