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Schneider Electric Control Tools ‘Vulnerable To Attack’

The control panels can be knocked offline by remote attackers using an unpatched bug, say security experts

8 years ago

Uber Offers “Treasure Map” For Friendly Hackers To Locate Bugs

X marks the spot. Transportation firm offers “treasure map” of computer system for hackers to find vulnerabilities

9 years ago

Twitter Patches Password Recovery Flaw

Oops. Bug with Twitter's password recovery system may have exposed account details of almost 10,000 users

9 years ago

‘Catastrophic’ Glibc Flaw Threatens Linux And IoT Devices

Patch now. GlibC DNS vulnerability could have serious reach amongst Internet-connected devices

9 years ago

Software Glitch Grants Early Release To Thousands Of US Prisoners

Thousands of US prisoners released early from prison, after software glitch went unchecked for 13 years

9 years ago

Mozilla Blames Bugzilla Hack For Firefox Attack

Bug reporting system compromised by hackers and used to attack on Firefox users, Mozilla admits

9 years ago

NYSE 4-Hour Blackout Caused by Technical Glitch

Yesterday's glitch threw Wall Street into one of the biggest blackouts ever experienced, but the outage was reportedly not a…

9 years ago

Skype Fixes Text Chat Bug That Causes Perpetual Crashes

Update remedies nasty URL fault in IM chats that caused Skype clients to crash

9 years ago

iOS Bug Crashes Your iPhone With One Text

iPhones will restart following SMS containing Arabic text, user reports say

9 years ago

Apple Patches Safari Cookie Vulnerability

Security researcher reveals Safari browser bug that could have affected up to one billion Apple devices

10 years ago

MIT Boffins Reveal Groundbreaking Integer Overflow Debugger

New algorithm can identify integer overflows, one of the most widely encountered bugs in computer programs

10 years ago

Facebook Doubles Bug Bounty for Advertising Code Flaws

Double payout for discovery of advertising coding flaws demonstrates advertising importance to Facebook

10 years ago

Microsoft Expands Bug Bounty To Tackle Exploits

Microsoft is a late comer to bug bounties, but now expands the scheme to offer more tempting rewards

11 years ago

Google’s Chat Service Redirected Messages To Random Contacts

Users complain about privacy, as their Google Hangouts and Google Talk messages reach wrong recipients

11 years ago

Microsoft Signs Up To Bug Bounties With £65,000 Reward

Microsoft has finally joined the bug bounty movement and promises to pay for vulnerability discoveries

11 years ago

Bug Kills Facebook Search Privacy Tool

This time it is a bug rather than a Facebook decision that has caused concern

12 years ago

Apple iOS 6.1 Bugs Continue With Exchange Problem

The admin headaches continue after Apple's iOS 6.1 update, with it crippling Exchange 2010 servers

12 years ago

Do Not Disturb Bug Bothers iPhone Owners

Apple has another problem to deal with in iOS 6

12 years ago

Facebook Bug Adds False ‘Likes’

Shares count as likes, even when shared in private, but only on plug-in counters, but some likes are liking stuff…

12 years ago

Google Leak Finder Tackles JavaScript Memory Hogging

Google has created a tool to fix software programs that fail to release computer memory back to the operating system

12 years ago

Google Raises Bug Bounty To £12,394 Per Flaw

Google will pay out up to a maximum of $20,000 (£12,394) per flaw as part of its bug bounty raise

13 years ago

TomTom Sat-Navs Lose Their Way

A “leap year bug” blamed on the third-party software caused GPS navigation devices to lose the connection

13 years ago

Microsoft Offers Refund For Azure’s Leap Year Outage

Microsoft provides detail of the Leap Day Azure cloud outage and offered a 33 percent rebate to all customers

13 years ago

Why We Can’t Laugh At Microsoft’s Misery

Through a probably trivial date error, Microsoft's Azure has screwed things up for all the other cloud providers, says Peter…

13 years ago

Security Flaw Makes WiFi Network Vulnerable To Brute-Force Attacks

The WPS passcode used to secure wireless networks can be exposed through “brute-force” hacking and an attack tool is already…

13 years ago

Mozilla Patches HTML5 Bugs In Firefox 9

Mozilla has fixed six vulnerabilities in its Firefox 9 web browser, two of which concern issues with HTML5

13 years ago

Adobe Revokes DigiNotar Certs, Issues 13 Patches

Alongside patches for vulnerabilities in Reader and Acrobat, Adobe has removed DigiNotar as a trusted CA

13 years ago

Facebook Hands Over £25,000 To Bug Hunters

Facebook has coughed up £25,000 to researchers as part of its newly introduced bug bounty program

13 years ago

RIM Patches Critical BlackBerry Enterprise Server Bug

RIM has fixed several critical bugs to do with the processing of images on BlackBerry Enterprise Server

13 years ago

Intel Readies Firmware Fix For SSD Bug

Intel is preparing to ship a firmware update in order to fix a problem with one of its solid state…

13 years ago