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uber bugs
14 bugs in Uber’s assets revealed sensitive info about drivers, riders

Researchers from consulting and technological audit outfit Integrity have discovered 14 bugs in a variety of Uber’s websites and mobile apps, most of which could reveal …

Google Chrome
Chrome vulnerability lets attackers steal movies from streaming services

A significant security vulnerability in Google technology that is supposed to protect videos streamed via Google Chrome has been discovered by researchers from the Ben-Gurion …

tools
Severe flaws patched in libarchive, dependent projects urged to follow

Three severe bugs that could be easily exploited to perform arbitrary code execution have been patched with version 3.2.1 of the libarchive open source multi-format archive …

match
The DAO is under attack, a third of its ether reserves stolen

The DAO, a digital Decentralised Autonomous Organisation that has been set up to support projects related to Ethereum, a public blockchain platform that allows programmable …

Facebook
How attackers can hijack your Facebook account

Positive Technologies researchers have demonstrated that knowing a user’s phone number and how to exploit a vulnerability in the SS7 network is enough to hijack that …

cisco small business router
Cisco’s small business Wi-Fi routers open to attack, no patch available

Security researcher Samuel Huntley has discovered four vulnerabilities in Cisco’s RV range of small business Wi-Fi routers, the worst of which could allow an …

Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash zero-day actively exploited in targeted attacks

A zero-day vulnerability affecting the latest version of Adobe Flash Player and all previous ones is being actively exploited in limited, targeted attacks, the company has …

Netgear D6000
Netgear removes crypto keys hard-coded in routers

Qualys security researcher Mandar Jadhav has discovered two serious vulnerabilities in Netgear D6000 and D3600 modem routers, which can be exploited to gain access to the …

Google Chrome
Bug in Chrome’s PDF reader allows arbitrary code execution

Vulnerabilities in software often arise from faulty implementations of elements developed by other code writers. Take for example CVE-2016-1681, the heap-based buffer overflow …

Facebook
Vulnerabilities in Facebook Chat and Messenger exploitable with basic HTML knowledge

Check Point’s security research team has discovered vulnerabilities in Facebook’s standard online Chat function, and its separately downloaded Messenger app. The …

Ubee EVW3226
Flaws in Ubee router can facilitate attacks on connected networks

Researchers have discovered five critical vulnerabilities in Ubee EVW3226, a VoIP cable modem router used by operators across Europe, which can be exploited to compromise the …

Lenovo
Lenovo tells users to uninstall vulnerable Accelerator app

In the wake of Duo Security’s report on the critical vulnerabilities sported by Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) updaters loaded on popular laptop and desktop …

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