CBS endangered cyber-procedural: Plane hacking! Software defined radio! White noise! OMG!. There are lots of cringeworthy technology moments on television, especially when the words “hacking” and “cyber” are introduced into theRead More →
API used a simple authentication scheme, exposing users to CSRF attacks that allowed third-parties to hijack accounts. Verizon fixed an issue in its My FiOS REST API that would haveRead More →
Russian ISP Eurobyte fails to answer Cisco’s emails, allows malvertising campaign to go on undisturbed. Cisco’s Talos research team has managed to identify and partially shut down a cyber-criminal group thatRead More →
First major automaker (aside from Tesla) to issue guidelines promising not to sue researchers. On January 5, General Motors quietly flipped the switch on Detroit’s first public security vulnerability disclosureRead More →
A number of weeks back, security researcher Parvez Anwar posted a number of DLL hijacking vulnerabilities within Microsoft Office on Twitter [1]. The following week, Microsoft released MS15-132, which addressedRead More →
IOActive’s Fernando Arnaboldi has sounded the alarm on three major flaws in Drupal’s update process that may allow attackers to poison Drupal installations via update packages and in worst caseRead More →
The security-focused smartphone contained vulnerabilities which allow hackers to control the device’s modem and call functions. Researchers have revealed a severe vulnerability in Silent Circle’s Blackphone which could allow attackers toRead More →
Despite calls to eliminate Adobe Flash Player, researchers inside and outside the vendor continue to invest in and build mitigations against modern attacks. As recently as three weeks ago, AdobeRead More →
Dll hijacking is a vulnerability that is caused by a misbehavior practiced by all versions of Windows.Many people believe that is a feature and not a bug because it wasRead More →
Researchers last week revealed a zero-day flaw that lets attackers take over a Linux system by pressing the backspace key repeatedly. Pressing backspace 17 to 20 times will overwrite theRead More →
