Google researchers finds critical flaws in Trend Micro AV solution
If you are using Trend Micro’s Maximum Security 10 solution for Windows, you might want to update it to the latest available version as soon as possible. If you …
Group using DDoS attacks to extort business gets hit by European law enforcement
On 15 and 16 December, law enforcement agencies from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany and the United Kingdom joined forces with Europol in the framework of an …
European data centre services provider Interxion suffers breach
A vulnerability present in the customer relationship management (CRM) system of Interxion, a Netherlands-based provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre …
How do you ensure success with DevOps?
Only 20 percent of organizations that have attempted to implement DevOps have fully deployed it, according to CA Technologies. Research also found that these …
Drupal moves to fix flaws in update process
After IOActive researcher Fernando Arnaboldi publicly revealed three crucial vulnerabilities in Drupal’s update process last Thursday, the Drupal Security Team published …
Most IT pros oppose government backdoor access
Close to two-thirds of global IT professionals oppose giving governments backdoor access to encrypted information systems, and 59% feel that privacy is being compromised in an …
General Motors invites hackers to report security flaws in their cars
General Motors has started a bug bounty program and has invited security researchers to report information on security vulnerabilities affecting the company’s products …
Imperfect algorithms threaten democracy
Do we want algorithms that we can’t understand or question to influence how we get to live our lives? Unfortunately, as Cathy O’Neil, well-known mathematician and …
Week in review: SLOTH attacks, JavaScript-based ransomware, and hacking medical implants
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: SLOTH attacks weaken secure protocols because they still use MD5 and SHA-1 …
SLOTH attacks weaken secure protocols because they still use MD5 and SHA-1
Researchers Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaëtan Leurent from INRIA, the French national research institute for computer science, have discovered a new class of transcript …
After two fixes, OAuth standard deemed secure
OAuth 2.0 is one of the most used single sign-on systems on the web: it is used by Facebook, Google, Microsoft, GitHub and other big Internet companies. A group of researchers …
FBI warns Time Warner Cable of potential data breach
Time Warner Cable will soon be contacting approximately 320,000 of its customers whose accounts have likely been compromised, the company’s public relations director …