March 10, 2014 , 11:24 am
Categories: Cryptography
A code audit is the best way to throw back the covers on errors like the one reported last week in GnuTLS, an open source crypto library used in a number of different Linux distributions.
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March 11, 2014 , 2:30 pm
Hackers Milk IE Zero Day Before Patch
Categories: Malware, Microsoft, Vulnerabilities, Web Security
Hackers hurried to exploit a critical Internet Explorer zero day vulnerability before it was to be fixed by Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday release.
March 11, 2014 , 12:21 pm
The NSA, Snowden and the Internet’s Offensive Future
Categories: Cryptography, Government, Privacy, Web Security
Despite everything that has transpired in the last year, Edward Snowden sounded calm, reflective and in some ways wistful yesterday discussing the fallout and consequences of the multitude of NSA programs and methods he’s revealed. Snowden bemoaned the fact that the NSA specifically and the intelligence community in general have shifted its focus to offensive[...]
March 11, 2014 , 5:00 am
Apple iOS 7.1 Fixes More Than 20 Code-Execution Flaws
Categories: Apple, Mobile Security, Vulnerabilities
Apple has fixed a slew of vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution on the iPhone, along with a number of other security vulnerabilities in the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 7.1. The new release comes just a little more than two weeks after Apple released iOS 7.06 to fix the SSL[...]
March 10, 2014 , 3:31 pm
200 Million Consumer Records Compromised in Experian ID Theft Case
Categories: Data Breaches, Privacy
information about a staggering number of citizens and perhaps as many as 30 million records, may have been divulged by a Vietnamese man who was able to trick credit reporting bureau Experian.
