vulnerability

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for new program analysis techniques and tools to enable analysts to identify vulnerabilities in algorithms …

Blackphone, the carrier- and vendor-independent smartphone that was created with the goal of placing privacy and control directly in the hands of its users, is not without its …

Around 350 Android apps that can be downloaded from Google Play and Amazon stores fail to properly validate SSL certificates for HTTPS connections, and thus open users to …

When well-known lawyer and Stanford law lecturer Jonathan Mayer was invited to teach a course on government surveillance on Coursera, the popular online website offering free …

Large companies such as Google and Facebook have dedicated teams that review bug submissions, verify valid bugs and reward security researchers, but that can be time and …

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner automatically checks your web applications for SQL Injection, XSS and other web vulnerabilities. Features: AcuSensor Technology SQL …

A growing number of data breaches and security incidents can be directly linked to poor code quality, according to CAST. The data reveals finance and retail industry …

Facebook will soon be pushing out an update to its iOS Messenger app meant to patch a vulnerability that could allow attackers to place pricy calls from users’ phones by …

The secrets you share on Secret, the popular app that allows people to share messages anonymously within their circle of friends, friends of friends, and publicly, can be …

A buffer overflow vulnerability that could be exploited to execute malicious code has been discovered in the Visual Component Library (VCL) library of Embarcadero’s …

An analysis of the 1,000 most popular free Android apps from the Google Play store has revealed a depressing fact: most of them sport an SSL/TLS vulnerability that can be …

If you think that denying an app permission to use your phone’s microphone is enough to prevent it from listening in on your conversations, think again, as a group of …