Facebook Bug Bounty Submissions Climb in 2014
Facebook released final numbers on 2014 submissions and payouts from its bug bounty program, showing continued growth in both areas.
Vulnerabilities
More than 1 Million WordPress Sites Open to SQL Injection Attacks
More than one million different WordPress sites may be vulnerable to a critical plugin issue that could lead to SQL injections and in turn, total site takeover.
Google Pwnium Program Now Open All Year
Google is expanding its successful Pwnium vulnerability reward program–which has run at various security conferences for a couple of years now–to run continuously and offer an unlimited pool of financial rewards. Pwnium originally was established as an alternative to the Pwn2Own hacking contest at CanSecWest every spring. The Pwn2Own contest has been the origin of […]
Software called PrivDog has been unearthed with a similar Superfish-type vulnerability that breaks SSL connections.
Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss their takeaways from the SAS 2015 conference, including the Equation Group APT analysis, hacking car washes, indexing the dark web and hacking home appliances.
In this video from last week’s Security Analyst Summit, HackerOne’s Katie Moussouris explains the main thing companies that want to start a bounty program or vulnerability incentive program need to know: There is no one size fits all.
Trey Ford from Project Sonar describes the group’s initiative at Kaspersky’s Security Analyst Summit. The Rapid 7 service scans public-facing networks for apps, software, and hardware, then analyzes that cache of information to gain insight to trends and common vulnerabilities.
Researcher Rob Graham has cracked the certificate password for Superfish adware pre-installed on Lenovo laptops.
Looking in one of the more obscure corners of the web, Billy Rios discovered how to hack automated car wash equipment.
Attackers have long used distributed denial of service attacks to knock domain-name servers offline but over the last several months malware creators have taken to using DNS requests to tunnel stolen data.
