vulnerability

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 …

In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2014, Silvio Cesare, Director of Anti-Malware Engineering at Qualys, discusses the security measures of a number of household devices …

During a penetration testing for a client, Australian based independent security consultant Nik Cubrilovic, discovered a couple of security issues within the very popular …

Security researchers taking part of the SOHOpelessly Broken hacking competition at this year’s edition of DEF CON have demonstrated 15 flaws affecting a number of small …

Cyber threats, data breaches and high-risk vulnerabilities have continued to dominate the first half of 2014. The severity of these attacks intensified against financial and …

Popular California-based financial services and mobile payments company Square has set up a bug bounty program on the HackerOne platform. The announcement was made at a panel …

Blackphone, the recently released security-oriented smartphone, has apparently been rooted. The feat was executed at the DEF CON hacker conference, where Jon Sawyer …

The massive breach that Target suffered late last year was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back and made the company decide to move to chip-and-PIN card …