vulnerability
Hack a Nexus from afar, get $200,000
Google has issued a challenge to bug hunters around the world: find a vulnerability or bug chain that achieves remote code execution on multiple Android devices knowing only …
GM recalls 3.6 million cars due to potentially fatal software defect
Last Friday, General Motors has announced that the owners of some 3.64 million of its vehicles will have to come in for a re-flash of their sensing and diagnostic module (SDM) …
Ransomware usage explodes, as app, browser and plug-in vulnerabilities increase
Bromium conducted research on cyber attacks and threats affecting enterprise security over the last six months. The good news is while the number of vulnerabilities is …
MySQL 0-day could lead to total system compromise
Researcher Dawid Golunski has discovered multiple severe vulnerabilities affecting the popular open source database MySQL and its forks (e.g. MariaDB, Percona). One of these …
Are all IoT vulnerabilities easily avoidable?
Every vulnerability or privacy issue reported for consumer connected home and wearable technology products since November 2015 could have been easily avoided, according to the …
Stealing login credentials from locked computers in 30 seconds or less
Security researcher Rob Fuller has demonstrated a simple way for stealing login credentials from locked computers running Windows and Mac OS X. For the attack to work, …
Flaws in Network Management Systems open enterprise networks to attacks
For quite a while now, Rapid7 researchers Tod Beardsley and Deral Heiland have been looking for vulnerabilities in various Network Management Systems (NMSs). With the help of …
Yelp makes its bug bounty program public
After two years of keeping their bug bounty program private and relatively secret, Yelp is opening it up and has invited bug hunters to probe its sites, apps, and …
Vulnerabilities found in cars connected to smartphones
Many of today’s automobiles leave the factory with secret passengers: prototype software features that are disabled but that can be unlocked by clever drivers. In what …
XSS flaw in D-Link NAS devices allows attackers to mess with your data
Security researcher Benjamin Daniel Mussler has unearthed an XSS flaw affecting seven D-Link NAS devices – a flaw which could allow attackers to access the devices and …
Apple plugs three actively exploited iOS zero-days
Owners of Apple’s mobile devices are advised to upgrade to iOS version 9.3.5 as soon as possible, as it fixes three zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited in the …
Mail.ru, Funcom gaming forums hacked, user databases stolen
Vulnerabilities in older versions of the popular vBulletin Internet forum software are being exploited left and right, and data of millions of forum users is being pilfered …