CYBER CRIME & CYBER SECURITY
TRENDS IN AFRICA
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Infographic:
A New Zero-Day
Vulnerability
Discovered
Infographic: A New Zero-Day
Vulnerability
Discovered
Every Week
in 2015 Every Week in 2015
Infographic:
A New
Zero-DayEvery
Vulnerability
Every Week in 2015
Infographic: A New Zero-Day
Vulnerability
Discovered
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2015
A New Zero-Day
Vulnerability Discovered
Every Week in 2015
1
Advanced attack groups continue to profit
from previously undiscovered flaws in
browsers and website plugins.
In 2015, 54 zero-day vulnerabilities were
discovered.
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1 Day Average Time to Patch
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2013
Total Zero-Day
Vulnerabilities
(+4%)
(+125%)
7
ICS vulnerabilities
targeted a variety
of manufacturers
and devices
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Total time of exposure for the top five zero-day vulnerabilities
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10 zero-days found in 2015
attacked
Flash
Player
4
5
of the top
exploited zero-days
Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome
Are Phasing
Out Support
11
3
Patch is
distributed
54 19
23 24
new vulnerabilities
used to exploit
open source
software
on average, based on 54 vulnerabilities
0
2015
2014
2015 Zero-Day
Not-So-Fun Facts
1
Vendor builds patch
Window
of
Hacker discovers
vulnerability
in 2015
Public and vendor
become aware
6
2
zero-day
vulnerabilities
discovered in the
Hacking Team
breach