vulnerability

Patrick Wardle, director of research at security firm Synack, has discovered a worryingly simple way to bypass OS X’s Gatekeeper defense mechanism: just bundle up a …

A critical vulnerability has been found in the latest version of WinRAR, the popular file archiver and compressor utility for Windows, and can be exploited by remote attackers …

Kenna studied the proliferation of non-targeted attacks and companies’ ability to mitigate these threats through the timely remediation of security vulnerabilities in their …

How many critical medical systems can be found on the Internet, accessible to and hackable by remote attackers? According to security researchers Scott Erven and Mark Collao, …

If security researchers get no response from manufacturers when disclosing vulnerabilities with life-threatening implications, the majority of IT security professionals (64%) …

In most people’s minds, antivirus and security software equals better security. But thanks to security researchers who have taken it upon themselves to analyze some of …

Researchers with security consultancy VerSprite have unearthed several vulnerabilities in Western Digital’s My Cloud NAS product, which can be exploited by local and …

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 …

Mozilla has patched a critical vulnerability (CVE-2015-4499) in its popular open source bug-tracking Bugzilla software – a vulnerability that can be exploited by …

Apple has released iOS 9. Along with many new and improved security and privacy features, fixes for a bucketload of security vulnerabilities have been included in this latest …

Among the vulnerabilities patched earlier this month by Microsoft is an important one that endangers users of Microsoft SharePoint 2013, a web application platform in the …

If you own a mobile device running any Android 5 version but the very last (v5.1.1) and you use a password to lock your device, you will want to update your OS or switch to a …