vulnerability

Absolute Computrace anti-theft software can be remotely hijacked

February 12, 2014

Kaspersky Lab’s security research team published a report confirming and demonstrating that the weak implementation of anti-theft software marketed by Absolute Software …

Older Flash Player vulnerability exploited in the wild

February 11, 2014

Microsoft researchers have also recently discovered several attacks in the wild exploiting another Flash Player vulnerability (CVE-2013-5330) on Windows, Linux and OS X. This …

Facebook bug prevents revocation of app permissions

February 7, 2014

Developers working for privacy software vendor MyPermissions claim to have discovered a critical vulnerability in Facebook’s code. The flaw can be exploited to make it …

Microsoft to keep next Patch Tuesday light

February 7, 2014

Microsoft continues the trend they started last month of keeping patch Tuesday relatively light. There are only five advisories this month – two critical, three …

Adobe Flash flaw exploited in the wild, update now

February 5, 2014

Adobe has released an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability affecting Flash Player for Windows, Linux and OS X, the exploitation of which can result in an attacker …

Windows, IE, Java are most vulnerable

February 4, 2014

When compared with the numbers from the previous year, 2013 has seen an increase in reported security vulnerabilities and, what’s more, the number of critical …

GitHub sets up bug bounty program

January 31, 2014

GitHub is the latest service to announce that they have started a security bug bounty program. “The idea is simple: hackers and security researchers find and report …

Check Point discovers critical vulnerability in MediaWiki

January 30, 2014

Check Point found a critical vulnerability in the MediaWiki project Web platform, a popular open source Web platform used to create and maintain ‘wiki’ Web sites. …

VPN bypass attack possible also on Android KitKat

January 29, 2014

Security researchers at Ben Gurion University in Israel are on a roll when it comes to discovering Android security flaws, and they revealed the existence of a critical flaw …

Hasbro’s website compromised, serves malware

January 27, 2014

The official website of well-known toy maker Hasbro has been compromised and found serving malware to unsuspecting visitors on a number of occasions during the last few weeks. …

Facebook awards $33,500 bounty for critical flaw

January 23, 2014

Facebook has announced that it has awarded $33,500 – their biggest bug bounty payout to date – to a Brazilian security researcher that discovered a remote code …

Chrome bugs allow websites to listen in on your conversations