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SAP finally patches critical, remotely exploitable bugs in GRC solution
More than a year and a half after they have been reported to SAP AG, the company has issued a patch for a number of critical exploitable security vulnerabilities in its …
Facebook open sources Proxygen, C++ HTTP framework + server
After having open sourced the OS analysis tool osquery a week ago, Facebook has announced on Wednesday that Proxygen – a collection of C++ HTTP libraries and an …
Which messaging technologies are actually secure?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has evaluated 39 chat clients, text messaging apps, email apps, and technologies for voice and video calls, and found that only six of them …
Google open sources nogotofail, a network traffic security testing tool
In their quest to make users, the Internet, and digital devices in general more secure, a number of big Internet companies have recently announced a new collaboration that …
Researchers audit the TextSecure encrypted messaging app
A group of German researchers have audited TextSecure, the popular open source encrypted messaging application for Android, and the news is good. After fixing a particular …
Facebook embraces Tor users, sets up onion address
While in the past Facebook has occasionally blocked Tor connections because of security considerations, the company has decided it will help Tor users from now on, and …
Open source Knock Knock tool reveals OS X malware
At this year’s Virus Bulletin conference held last month in Seattle, security researcher Patrick Wardle spoke about methods of malware persistence on Mac OS X. The video …
Facebook open sources osquery, an OS analysis tool
Facebook has open sourced osquery, a framework that exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database and allows developers to write SQL-based queries to …
US ICS operators under attack by crims wielding BlackEnergy malware
The US ICS-CERT has issued a warning about an ongoing sophisticated malware campaign that has hit a number of industrial control systems (ICSs) environments using a variant of …
IBM’s Big Data analytics solution to uncover criminal cyber activity in seconds
IBM announced new high-speed analysis and criminal investigation software that is designed to uncover hidden criminal threats buried deep inside massive volumes of disparate …
Open source NAC solution PacketFence 4.5.0 released
PacketFence is a free and open source Network Access Control (NAC) solution. It can be used to effectively secure small to very large heterogeneous networks. Among the …
Avast 2015 identifies vulnerable home routers
Avast Software launched Avast 2015, available in four consumer variations: Avast Free Antivirus, Avast Pro Antivirus, Avast Internet Security, and Avast Premier. All versions …
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