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26 vulnerabilities found in parental monitoring application
A new Citizen Lab report details results of two independent audits of the privacy and security of Smart Sheriff, a parental monitoring application that has been promoted by …
Zero-day bugs in Kaspersky and FireEye products found, exploits disclosed
A slew of vulnerabilities – some already patched and some still not – have been revealed to affect several security offerings by some of the most trusted names in …
Vulnerabilities in WhatsApp Web affect 200 million users globally
Significant vulnerabilities can exploit WhatsApp Web, the web-based extension of the popular WhatsApp application for phones.The exploit can allow attackers to trick victims …
Rudra: Framework for automated inspection of network capture files
In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2015, Ankur Tyagi, Malware Research Engineer at Qualys, talks about Rudra, a framework for automated inspection of network capture …
Open source Sleepy Puppy tool finds XSS bugs in target apps and beyond
Since Monday, security pros can add another XSS-finding tool to their arsenal, as Netflix has open sourced their cross-site scripting payload management framework dubbed …
Popular Android AppLock app full of gaping security holes
AppLock, by DoMobile, is a very popular Android app for limiting access to certain content on the device (text messages, photos, videos, etc.). The user decides what content …
Verizon and Splunk deliver actionable threat intelligence
Verizon Enterprise Solutions launched its Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) app for Splunk software. The new free downloadable app helps take the guess work out of …
Spotting malicious apps on Android markets just got easier
“Spotting malicious apps before they are offered for download and/or removing them is a tough challenge for every online Android app marketplace, including Google Play, …
JetAudio and JetVideo media player vulnerability allows arbitrary code execution
An arbitrary code execution in the JetAudio Basic (v8.1.3) and JetVideo media players for Windows allows potential attackers to craft a malicious .asf file that could …
Open source auditing with Lynis
Lynis is an open source security auditing tool. Commonly used by system administrators, security professionals and auditors, to evaluate the security defenses of their …
Evaluating the security of open source software
The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), a project managed by The Linux Foundation, is developing a new free Badge Program, seeking input from the open source community on …
Mozilla is experimenting with improved Private Browsing
Mozilla Foundation is again aiming to boost the privacy of Firefox users, and is beginning to test a new, improved kind of Private Browsing.“All major browsers offer …
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