FromSoftware and Bandai Namco are temporarily closing down player-versus-player multiplayer access to the Dark Souls games on Windows PC after a dangerous remote code execution (RCE) exploit became ...

Security researcher Thor Larholm has found what might be the first remote code execution vulnerability in Apple's shiny new Safari for Windows. Larholm (left) has released an advisory with ...

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Fully functional exploit code for the (still unpatched) Windows SMB v2 vulnerability has been released to the public domain via the freely available Metasploit point-and-click attack tool, raising the ...

Macs older than a year are vulnerable to exploits that remotely overwrite the firmware that boots up the machine, a feat that allows attackers to control vulnerable devices from the very first ...

In my first installment in this series on professional hacking tools, we downloaded and installed Metasploit, the exploitation framework. Now, we will begin to explore the Metasploit Framework and ...

Zerodium has announced today an increased interest in exploits for the WordPress content management system that achieve remote code execution. The exploit acquisition platform is now enticing exploit ...

Hundreds of millions of cable modems are vulnerable to critical takeover attacks by hackers halfway around the world, researchers said. Cable Haunt, as the researchers have named their ...

Believe it or not, there are quite a few people out there who have purchased gun safes that can be remotely unlocked by Bluetooth. Now we can understand why somebody might think this was a good idea: ...

Using an exploit in the AI language model, users have used a Twitter AI to post ASCII art and make ‘credible threats’ against the president. Reading time 3 minutes Have you ever wanted to gaslight an ...