Sony has agreed to pay up to $8m over employees’ personal data lost in the 2014 hacking scandal surrounding the release of The Interview. Hackers had broken into the company’sRead More →
Sharon Goldberg remembers the cold February day when her Boston University PhD candidate Aanchal Malhotra was studying routing security, in particular, attacks against the resource public key infrastructure (RPKI)—and keptRead More →
Apple has released security updates to fix critical vulnerabilities in the following Apple products: OS X El Capitan, Mavericks and Yosemite, OS X Server, Safari, watchOS, iOS, iTunes, Xcode, andRead More →
Security researcher Axelle Apvrille has managed to deliver malware to a FitBit Flex fitness tracker, and to spread the infection to any computer that the device is subsequently connected to.Read More →
All users of the Linux 4.2 kernel must upgrade It looks like it’s still October 22 in some countries, so Greg Kroah-Hartman announced just a few minutes ago the immediateRead More →
Exploits can be used to snoop on encrypted traffic and cause debilitating outages. Serious weaknesses in the Internet’s time-synchronization mechanism can be exploited to cause debilitating outages, snoop on encryptedRead More →
My new Xiaomi Mi 4c smartphone arrived yesterday after an interlude with a German customs agent and several days of delay. I first thought that I had to fight myRead More →
Oracle on Tuesday patched 154 vulnerabilities in 54 different products as part of its regularly scheduled Critical Patch Update. More than half of the patches, 84 to be exact, addressRead More →
The CIA and the FBI are always looking for backdoors in Apple devices, in fact, the agency spent years trying to hack iPhone and iPads according to documents released by NSA’s EdwardRead More →
Jailbreak team PanguTeam was credited with finding two security flaws. Apple has fixed 49 separate security vulnerabilities in iOS 9.1. The company, which released the software on Wednesday for iPhonesRead More →
