A Dutch member of the European parliament is supporting a grass-roots effort to restrict the export of surveillance software such as FinFisher and others, which are used by some governments and law-enforcement agencies to monitor their citizens’ activities.
Mozilla released Firefox 25 yesterday, fixing 10 vulnerabilities, five of them critical.
A mass injection campaign surfaced over the last two weeks that’s already compromised at least 40,000 web pages worldwide and is tricking victims into downloading rogue, unwanted software to their computer.
President Barack Obama has initiated a review of the procedures and methods that the NSA uses to collect intelligence at home and overseas to ensure that the agency isn’t overstepping its bounds in phone and Internet data collection.
A researcher has discovered serious vulnerabilities in the main Facebook and Facebook Messenger apps for Android that enable any other app on a device to access the user’s Facebook access token and take over her account. The same researcher also discovered a separate, similar flaw in the Facebook Pages Manager for Android, an app that […]
Google announced a change to its reCAPTCHA authentication system; Google said it will create different types of puzzles for different users, use numeric CAPTCHAs and move away from more obscure, hard-to-read distorted letters.
Experts hope the upcoming audit of TrueCrypt will concerns over its wonky open source license to rest.
Dennis Fisher talks with Jeremiah Grossman of WhiteHat Security about the company’s new Aviator browser, which employees have used for years, but the company just released as a public project.
It’s been known for some time now–several months, in fact–that there is a critical, remotely exploitable vulnerability in some of Netgear’s ReadyNAS storage boxes, and a patch has been available since July. However, many of the boxes exposed to the Web are still vulnerable, and a recent scan by HD Moore of Rapid7 found that […]
There is a vulnerability in some Netgear wireless routers that allows a remote attacker to completely compromise a device and gain root privileges. The bug is trivially exploitable and the researcher who discovered it has posted a proof-of-concept exploit. The vulnerability is a command-injection flaw that, when combined with a separate authentication-bypass bug that the […]
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