Advantech has published a new version of its WebAccess product to address vulnerabilities that put installations at risk to remote code execution attacks. Exploiting the vulnerabilities would be a challenge,Read More →
There’s something fishy about this botnet. Social media and advertising fraud investigations firm Sadbottrue has discovered a botnet of three million Twitter accounts, along with two smaller botnets of 100,000 botsRead More →
We came across a family of mobile malware called Godless (detected as ANDROIDOS_GODLESS.HRX) that has a set of rooting exploits in its pockets. By having multiple exploits to use, GodlessRead More →
Users are now prompted to update to the latest version. Apple is now blocking older versions of Adobe’s Flash Player because of security vulnerabilities that were patched in the most recentRead More →
On June 1st, I reported an arbitrary recursion bug in the Linux kernel that can be triggered by a local user on Ubuntu if the system was installed with homeRead More →
An unnamed hacker hacked the video conferencing software used by the Quebec Liberal Party and shared the news with the media. Politicians are a privileged target of hackers, in manyRead More →
Selfrando is an alternative to ASLR memory randomization. At the start of June, the Tor Project released version 6.5a1 of the Tor Browser, but compared to previous releases, this one alsoRead More →
Today the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) finally published its exhaustive report on the FBI’s face recognition capabilities. The takeaway: FBI has access to hundreds of millions more photos thanRead More →
Python’s built-in URL library (“urllib2” in 2.x and “urllib” in 3.x) is vulnerable to protocol stream injection attacks (a.k.a. “smuggling” attacks) via the http scheme. If an attacker could convinceRead More →
Users of the TeamViewer remote-access service have beencomplaining in recent weeks about how their systems have been hacked into, unauthorized purchases made on their cards, their bank accounts emptied. Initially itRead More →
