Microsoft has posted bounties of up to $US100,000 ($106,000) for "truly novel" ways to hack the latest version of its Windows software for powering computers. "For the first time ever, Microsoft is offering direct cash payouts in exchange ...
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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 ...
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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 17-year-old German student contends PayPal has denied him a reward for finding a vulnerability in its website. Robert Kugler said he notified PayPal of the vulnerability on May 19. He said he was informed by email that because he is ...
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Google today upgraded Chrome to version 27, touting it as 5% faster as it patched 13 vulnerabilities. The upgrade was the first since March 26, when Google plumped Chrome 26 into the release channel, the most polished of its three public ...
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Adobe today patched Flash Player, the fifth time this year it's updated the vulnerability-plagued software. Unlike two of the three updates last month, however, today's was part of Adobe's regularly-scheduled patch cadence. Last ...
A day after researchers hacked Chrome and Firefox at the Pwn2Own contest, Google and Mozilla patched their browsers Thursday. The contest also wound down yesterday after hackers had earned a record $480,000 over two days. The update to ...
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Research teams Wednesday cracked Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, pulling in more than $250,000 in prizes. Earlier in the day, a solo hacker exploited Oracle's ...
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Google today patched 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome, just two days before the start of Pwn2Own, a hacking contest that has $100,000 in prize money waiting for the first researcher to crack the browser. In an update Monday for the Windows ...
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Facebook has patched a serious vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to easily gain access to private user account data and control accounts by tricking users into opening specifically crafted links, a Web application security ...
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One week after launching a security bug bounty program, the new file-storage and sharing service Mega claims to have fixed seven vulnerabilities, none of which met its highest severity classification. Since Mega was launched three weeks ...
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A coffeemaker embedded with Swarovski crystals seems a little over the countertop but maybe it takes a little bling to make an everyday appliance seem less prosaic. Fortunately, the Cuisinart Crystal coffeemaker had other attributes ...
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Google today announced it would again host its Pwnium hacking contest at a March security conference, but boosted the maximum amount it will pay to $3.14 million and changed the target to its browser-based operating system, Chrome OS. ...
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Microsoft today shipped an emergency update for Internet Explorer (IE) to stymie attacks that have been occurring since at least Dec. 7. The "out-of-band" update -- the label for a security fix outside a vendor's normal schedule -- was ...
Oracle on Sunday issued an emergency Java update to patch two critical vulnerabilities, including one that had been exploited in ongoing and accelerating attacks. Also yesterday, a researcher noted for uncovering scores of Java bugs ...
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