A few days ago, experts revealed that a clickjacking vulnerability in Flash Player, that was fixed by Adobe a long time ago, could still be leveraged in Chrome to hijack users’ webcams and microphones.
Google has addressed the issue with the release of the latest stable channel update for Chrome.
Ch... [read more >>] PayPal has recently made some changes to its official bug bounty program. The company hasn’t announced anything officially, but security researcher and CEO of Vulnerability Lab Benjamin Kunz Mejri has notified us of the changes.
Kunz Mejri believes the new model implemented by PayPal is more transpar... [read more >>] Hackers of the AnonGhost collective have published what they claim to be the email logins of Mozilla managers.
The hackers have published a list of 50 email addresses and 16-character strings which they claim to represent passwords.
On the other hand, Mozilla representatives say the 16-character cod... [read more >>] The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has officially released the OWASP Top 10 for 2013. The previous OWASP Top 10 was released back in 2010.
Take a look at the new OWASP Top 10:
A1 Injection
A2 Broken Authentication and Session Management
A3 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
A4 Insecure Direct Ob... [read more >>] A security hole has already been identified in Apple’s recently released iOS 7 beta. 36-year-old iPhone user Jose Rodriguez from Spain has found a way to bypass the lock screen and gain access to the phone’s camera.
Forbes reports that Rodriguez has managed to gain access to the calculator appl... [read more >>] John Anthony Borell III, 22, known on the web as Anonymous hacker “ItsKahuna,” has pleaded guilty to five hacking-related charges.
According to The Associated Press, Borell agreed to admit hacking the websites of the LA County Canine Police Association, the Salt Lake City police, Syracuse polic... [read more >>] LulzSec hacker Ryan Cleary, known on the hacking scene as ViraL, will be released soon. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison back in May after admitting to his involvement in cyberattacks against several high-profile organizations. He has already served over half of his sentence – one year, six mo... [read more >>] Last month, we became aware of a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel (CVE-2013-2094). According to experts, the exploit has already been modified to work on the Android operating system.
Symantec reports that it’s likely for this exploit to be incorporated into Android malwar... [read more >>] The latest update for Flash Player does away with some security flaws that could have been exploited by an attacker to gain control over a system.
Earlier versions of Flash Player for all supported platforms are affected, thus Adobe recommends the transition to build 11.7.700.224 for Windows, 11.7.700.225 ... [read more >>] Germany’s Interior Ministry has revealed that it is working with US authorities on determining the impact of the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program on German citizens.
In the meantime, a spokesman of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has revealed that Merkel will likely bring up the controver... [read more >>] |
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