Adobe Patches Nine Vulnerabilities in Flash
Adobe patched Flash Player , addressing nine vulnerabilities in the software including critical bugs that could allow an attacker to take control of an affected system.
Web Security
Gitrob Combs Github Repositories for Secret Company Data
Gitrob, an open source intelligence tool, helps security analysts search Github organization repositories for files not meant for public consumption.
Encryption is Not the Enemy
David Cameron, speaking in the wake of the terror attack in Paris last week, said at an event Monday that the UK government can’t allow any form of communication that can’t be read.
Hardware hacker and security researcher Samy Kamkar has released a slick new device that masquerades as a typical USB wall charger but in fact houses a keylogger capable of recording keystrokes from nearby wireless keyboards.
Researchers from Core Security have disclosed DLL hijacking vulnerabilities in several applications made by Corel Software after the vendor didn’t respond to Core’s notifications about the flaws.
Google has decided that it will no longer provide Webview patches for Android systems running Jelly Bean 4.3, or older, putting the onus on OEMs and the open source security community to provide patches to users.
The Certificate Transparency scheme proposed by Google engineers has taken a couple of significant steps forward recently, with the approval of the first independent certificate log and the passing of a deadline for all extended validation certificates to be CT-compliant or lose the green indicator in Google Chrome. On Jan. 1, a CT log operated by […]
Google security engineers have criticized the security and privacy of WhiteHat Security’s Aviator browser, after finding a remote code execution vulnerability within hours of Aviator’s release as open source.
Online retailer Zappos settled with attorneys general in nine states, stemming from a data breach in 2012 that exposed 24 million customers’ information.
Up until a few weeks ago, the number of people outside of North Korea who gave much thought to the Internet infrastructure in that country was vanishingly small. But the speculation about the Sony hack has fixed that, and now a security researcher has taken a hard look at the national browser used in North […]
