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Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

Critical Foxit PDF Reader Vulnerabilities: Update as soon as possible

A team of web application security experts has discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in Foxit PDF Reader, one of the most popular PDF reader tools and the main competitor of Adobe Reader. The flaws found include remote code execution errors considered highly serious. The researchers, led by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos, discovered this set of […]

Hacker reveals zero-day vulnerability in Windows

The flaw was found in a completely updated system A cyber security organization researcher has publicly disclosed the details about new zero-day vulnerability present in Microsoft’s Windows operating system that could help a local user or malicious programmer gain system privileges on the targeted machine. It was also confirmed that the zero-day vulnerability was found on a […]

More than 10K vulnerabilities have been revealed so far this year

A considerable amount of the vulnerabilities revealed are considered as critical flaws A cyber security organization report shows that 16.6% of the vulnerabilities reported in the year 2018 received scores in the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) of between 9.0 and 10.0, which is a fall compared to the numbers recorded in earlier years, however, the severity of the […]