What does Zero-Days mean or zero day in Spanish?
The zero day attack are a type of attack against a specific application or system and aims to violate its computer security The hacker creates a malicious code that injected into your messaging program or your browser, because of some vulnerability found, without being noticeable by the common user.
Information is power
And you must be up to date with any vulnerability that may exist in the different applications you have on your device. Enter the blog pages dedicated to giving news about computer science, such as Gowtech.
Such is the importance of reading news in computer security that, for example, from the Google blog, on November 2 was notified of an exploit that affected the Chrome website any that is the platform in which it is installed. They advise us to update the browser as soon as possible.
Although Chrome is normally updated when leaving, many of them do not and to update your browser you can do them from the three vertical points located on the right, then click to help and then in “Chrome information”. You will see if you have to update your browser or not.
Most up -to -date version of Google Chrome after the exploit found
Keep in mind that you should have, if you use Chrome or Brave, version 86.0.4240.183 and if you use Edge version 86.0.622.61. Since they are the two browsers who have this gap.
Not long ago, at the end of October two more problems were discovered in the browser, and must immediately update. The hackers took over the information that was in mobile phones and computers by malware or malicious program to create a back door using Chrome.
Project Zero de Google and its discoveries
We cannot miss Project Zero from Google, a team of Google computer security analysts, in charge of finding Zero Day attacks. Such is the example of this great team that have published a proof of a new Zero Day in Windows 10, exploited and without patch. Appointed as CVE-2020-17087 Vulnerability consists of buffer overflow in the Windows kernel . In conjunction with Chrome's problem, hackers explode this vulnerability these days.
Google says that it is a new Zero Day in Windows 10 being a critical error, being exploited by cybercriminals. Google has given a period of seven days for Microsoft to patch its vulnerability and this was your answer after the days go by:
"Microsoft has a client commitment to investigate the informed security problems and update the affected devices to protect them. Although we work to meet the dissemination deadlines of all researchers, including short -term deadlines as in this scenario, the development of a security update is a balance between punctuality and quality, and our final objective is to help guarantee maximum customer protection with a minimum interruption of their equipment".
Even so, the leader of Project Zero, Ben Hawkes, publishes a tweet where Microsoft plans to publish an update on November 10. As reported, the attacks that are taking place with this vulnerability are aimed at the United States and unrelated elections.
Update and prevention
Now new exploits will be found that will exploit this vulnerability, the best option will be to update your devices when you have the possibility, so you will win in computer security .
Microsoft already has its eyes on this new vulnerability when it has come out of another. Windows Flash Player elimination. Flash Player is the big world problem, since hackers find new vulnerabilities every day that can be exploited to access the information stored on your computer. The problem comes with the extension of the multimedia player and adobe plugin, which allows us to add content on the web, embeding deceptive advertising.
And, Adobe announced the completion of support for the adobe plugin on initiatory such as Microsoft to eliminate it through an update. The new update is the so -called KB4577586 and which is pending to update the operating systems on October 27 of this year. According to Adobe, it will end on December 31 of this year. But this decline has not come recently, since the founder of Apple, by 2010, announced that he was looking for alternatives to Flash Player with the aim of implementing in its devices new efficient and modern technologies. From this moment on, tools and standards were deployed competing with Adobe Flash. Consequently, the company announced in 2017 the end, giving a period of 3 years for websites (HTML5, webgl or webassembly), designers or developers could migrate their content to another software similar to Adobe Flash.
Solutions and tools to maintain a high level of computer security
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