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 …
The rise of artificial intelligence technologies
The advance of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has caught the attention of companies and institutions in a wide range of enterprise markets, and executives in almost …
Security flaws could allow attackers to steal over 100 different cars
Since 2012, a trio of European researchers knew that the Megamos Crypto transponder – used in a over 100 cars manufactured by Audi, Ferrari, Fiat, Cadillac, Volkswagen …
Payment card info of 93,000 Web.com customers stolen
The name, address, and credit card information of approximately 93,000 customers of Web.com, a popular US-based provider of Internet services to small businesses, has been …
Most security executives lack confidence in their security posture
A new Raytheon|Websense survey of security executives at large companies in the U.S. reveals that confidence in their enterprise security posture is lacking.According to the …
Stolen Ashley Madison data dumped online, seems legitimate
As you might have heard by now, some 10 gigabytes of data allegedly stolen in last month’s Ashley Madison hack have been leaked by the attackers on the Dark Web and on …
Microsoft issues emergency patch for IE flaw exploited in the wild
Microsoft has pushed out an emergency out-of-band Internet Explorer update, which fixes a critical memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2015-2502) that is being actively …
The unstoppable rise of DDoS attacks
For the past three quarters, there has been a doubling in the number of DDoS attacks year over year, according to Akamai. And while attackers favored less powerful but longer …
Keep your site more secure with WordPress 4.3
WordPress 4.3, named Billie in honor of jazz singer Billie Holiday, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard.The new version enables you to keep your …
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 …
Does your mobile carrier track you online?
At least nine mobile carriers around the world are using “supercookies” to track users’ web browsing, a study by human rights organization Access has …
Researcher releases exploit for OS X 0-day that gives root access
Italian security researcher Luca Todesco has published PoC exploit code for a newly discovered zero-day privilege escalation flaw affecting OS X Yosemite (v10.10) and …
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