As part of its first-ever bounty program, Microsoft has paid out $28,000 to a small group of researchers who identified and reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 11. The IE 11 bounty program only ran for one month during the summer, but it attracted a number of submissions from well-known researchers.
An expert involved in the investigation into the Adobe hack said it could be one of the worst breaches in U.S. history.
Adobe announced it has been breached and attackers may have accessed source code for a number of products, and stolen 2.9 million customer records.
Guest contributor Andrew Storms reflects on a decade of Patch Tuesday. The Microsoft initiative turns 10 next week.
The effects of large-scale surveillance, security researcher Andrew Lee argues, remain psychologically devastating and debilitating for most people.
A Metasploit exploit module has been released for the zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The flaw has been exploited in attacks against Japanese targets, and expert think the availability of a Metasploit exploit could accelerate attacks.
Microsoft’s latest Law Enforcement Requests Report shows that no requests for Skype user content were made in the first half of 2013.
I had a chance to visit a number of industrial events this year and can see the evolution of cybersecurity in the industrial field. One of these was the 4th National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework Workshop (CFW).
After a botched software update over the weekend, Apple re-released version 6.0 of its Apple TV product last night.
The latest Internet Explorer zero day is being used in a watering hole attack where local media sites in Japan have been compromised and serving exploits. The targets are government, high tech and manufacturing workers.
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