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WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The point is that there is no software without vulnerabilities.

Definitely true, but that conflicts with this:

Coincidentally, security was one of the reasons to uninstall 7-Zip.

If you uninstalled software because of security, you wouldn't have any software left :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also true. I was probably too impatient when I bought a WinRAR license over night. But now I have it and I use it. :-)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'm sure they're still celebrating someone purchasing a license :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Y-you paid for WinRAR?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I even own legitimate Total Commander and mIRC licenses!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wow, a real unicorn! 🦄