Facebook has admitted that it exposed six million users' private phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorised viewers over the last year. The social media network blamed a technical bug for the data breach, which has resulted in ...
Tags: Facebook, Private Data, Social Media Network
Facebook said the problem was tied to its Download Your Information tool. Source: AFP Facebook says a bug in its system caused six million users' contact information to be inadvertently exposed. The social media company said the bug led ...
Tags: Facebook, Contact Information, Social Media
Microsoft took a two-year-old contest and turned it on its head to come up with a new reward program that will pay security researchers up to $100,000 for demonstrating novel attack tactics against Windows 8.1. In a broad announcement ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8.1, Bounty Program
Microsoft on Wednesday backpedaled from a long-standing refusal to pay bug bounties when it announced a temporary program for the beta of Internet Explorer 11 (IE11). The Internet Explorer 11 Preview Bug Bounty will start June 26, the day ...
Oracle's recent upgrade to its online forums has divided the portal's many users, with some saying the update brings welcome changes but others claiming it is bug-riddled and inferior to its predecessor. After the revamped Oracle ...
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Java continues to be Public Enemy No. 1 when it comes to computer and network security. Oracle released a huge update for the virtually ubiquitous software, but attackers aren’t done exploiting Java as the weakest link in the security ...
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Microsoft will pay security researchers for finding and reporting vulnerabilities in the preview version of its Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) browser, for finding novel techniques to bypass exploit mitigations present in Windows 8.1 or later ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8, IE, Security Bounty Programs
Apple will probably spill the timetable and pricing of the next version of OS X on Monday. At 10 a.m. PT June 10, Apple will kick off the opening keynote for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which it's used in the past ...
A newly discovered Trojan program exploits previously unknown flaws in Android and borrows techniques from Windows malware in order to evade detection and achieve persistence on infected devices. Security researchers from antivirus firm ...
Microsoft today said it will ship just five security updates next week, the fewest in any month so far this year, to patch 23 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE), Windows and Office. The update for Office will address a bug that is ...
Tags: Microsoft, Computer Products, Office Bug
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), the organization that develops and maintains the widely used BIND DNS (Domain Name System) software, has patched a publicly disclosed vulnerability that can be used to remotely crash DNS servers ...
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Apple on Tuesday updated OS X Mountain Lion, likely for one of the last times, with a combination of compatibility and reliability bug fixes as well as vulnerability patches. The update to OS X 10.8.4 -- the first from Apple since ...
Tags: Apple, Lion Bugs, Java Defenses
Google today patched 12 vulnerabilities in Chrome, including one of the few labeled "critical" that it has fixed in the five-year history of its browser. Tuesday's update to the "stable" build channel -- analogous to a production version ...
A little more than four months after Twitter unveiled its video service, Vine, the company has launched Vine for Android. "Starting today, you can begin to shoot, share and watch short looping videos," wrote Sara Haider, an Android ...
Spring is here, and for many motorists, this is the season for paint-smearing bugs. Whether you fear the 17-year Cicada Brood II apocalypse moving up the East Coast, love bugs in the South, or some other local winged horror, this is a great ...
Tags: Car Wax, Spring Bug Season