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Read Microsoft's Snarky Response to Google Uncovering a Windows Flaw
Nov 2, 2016Microsoft has hit back at Google after the search engine giant unveiled a “critical vulnerability” in Windows. On October 21, Google warned Microsoft privately about a major security flaw in Windows that was already being ...
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Presentation Showed a Flaw That Could Expose WhatsApp Chat History in The Android Version
Mar 13, 2014"With this question my brother and I started an interesting conversation which ended in underneath proof of concept. The tldr [sic] answer is: "Yes, that is possible." Those lines are from the question-and-answer posed on a Tuesday blog ...
Tags: Android application, WhatsApp chat history, instant messaging app
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Self-Driving Car Technology Will Hit Road Well Before Authorities Are Ready to License It
Jan 9, 2014Like an impatient teenager, self-driving car technology will be ready to hit the road well before authorities are ready to license it, predict a pair of studies released last week. That may not be such a bad thing, write researchers at ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
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The BGU Lab's Breach of The System Appeared to Have Been Carried out on a Device
Dec 30, 2013Israeli researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) said a security flaw was discovered by a team member, a PhD student, and that this vulnerability could enable interception of data on Samsung mobile devices based on the Knox ...
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The Cyber Attack Adobe Recently Suffered Impacted 38 Million Users
Oct 31, 2013Adobe, known for its Reader and Acrobat software, has confirmed that the cyber attack it recently suffered impacted 38 million users - more than 10 times the 2.9 million customers it had said were affected initially. The attack, which the ...
Tags: Adobe, software, Computer Products
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Facebook Has Blamed a Misunderstanding for an Embarrassing Incident Last Week
Aug 26, 2013Facebook has blamed a misunderstanding for an embarrassing incident last week in which founder Mark Zuckerberg's Timeline was hacked to draw attention to a security flaw a researcher believed was being ignored by firm. As QEDs go, what ...
Tags: Facebook, Computer Products
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The London Olympics Faced Six Major Cyber Attacks
Mar 7, 2013The London Olympics faced six major cyber attacks during the Games out of some 165 million individual security-related "events" identified by the IT team put together by Gary Pennell, the CIO of the London 2012 Olympics. Cloud was a ...
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Internet Explorer's Poor Reputation for Security Is Undeserved
Mar 5, 2013Internet Explorer's poor reputation for security is undeserved, with Mozilla Firefox actually the most vulnerable internet browser in common usage. That's according to research by network security solutions provider Sourcefire, which ...
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Mega File-Sharing Service Has Launched a Vulnerability Reward Program
Feb 17, 2013The Mega file-sharing service has launched a vulnerability reward program that will pay up to 10,000 euros (around $13,600) for every serious security flaw found in the platform and reported responsibly. The rules of the program were laid ...
Tags: Mega, file-sharing service, vulnerability reward program
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Adobe Has Been Forced to Investigate Reports of a Zero-Day Security Flaw
Feb 17, 2013Adobe has been forced to investigate reports of a zero-day security flaw in its Reader and Acrobat software that leaves users vulnerable to cyber-attacks. The exploit was discovered by researchers at network security firm FireEye, who ...
Tags: Adobe, zero-day security flaw, Reader and Acrobat software
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Oracle Will Not Stop Bundling What Critics Describe as "Crapware" and "Foistware"
Jan 28, 2013Oracle will not stop bundling what critics describe as "crapware" and "foistware" with its Java installer anytime soon, a company representative intimated last week. The practice of offering up other software alongside Java updates, ...
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Researchers From an Vulnerability Research Firm Found Vulnerabilities in Java 7 Update 11
Jan 21, 2013Researchers from a Poland-based vulnerability research firm on Friday announced that they had found vulnerabilities in Java 7 Update 11 that can be exploited to bypass the software’s security sandbox and execute arbitrary code on ...
Tags: Researchers, Java, Security Flaw
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The New Build of OSX Mountain Lion, 10.8.3 Beta Has Been Seeded to Developers
Jan 21, 2013The new build of OSX Mountain Lion, 10.8.3 beta, has been seeded to developers, reports on Friday suggested, arriving little more than a week after the previous version with no known changes. The new build of the pre-release software, ...
Tags: OSX Mountain Lion, 10.8.3 beta, software
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Oracle Should Rewrite The Programming Language Completely and Start Again From Scratch
Jan 15, 2013Going on the most recent security flaw in Java, Oracle should rewrite the programming language completely and start again from scratch, according to Bogdan Botezatu, Senior E-Threat Analyst with Bitdefender, a Romanian-based antivirus ...
Tags: Java, security flaw, Oracle, programming language
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Security Experts Have Flagged a Zero-Day Exploit in Oracle's Java Software
Jan 11, 2013Security experts have flagged a zero-day exploit in Oracle's Java software,urging users to disable it to prevent hackers remotely controlling their computers. "Java is a mess.It's not secure,"said James Blasco,labs manager for internet ...
Tags: Java, security expert, hacker, Windows 7
