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Microsoft and Adobe warn of separate zero-day vulnerabilities under attack

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Windows users woke up to something that doesn't happen every day: the disclosure of two zero-day vulnerabilities, one in the Microsoft operating system and the other in Adobe's Flash Player.

The Windows bug is being actively exploited in the wild, making it imperative that users install fixes that Microsoft released today as part of...

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FBI admits it uses stingrays, zero-day exploits

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The head of the FBI's science and technology division has admitted what no other agency official has acknowledged before—the FBI sometimes exploits zero-day vulnerabilities to catch bad guys.

The admission came in a profile published Tuesday of Amy Hess, the FBI's executive assistant director for science and technology who oversees the bureau's Operational Technology...

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