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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
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
Twitter Patches Password Recovery Flaw
Oops. Bug with Twitter's password recovery system may have exposed account details of almost 10,000 users
‘Catastrophic’ Glibc Flaw Threatens Linux And IoT Devices
Patch now. GlibC DNS vulnerability could have serious reach amongst Internet-connected devices
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
Mozilla Blames Bugzilla Hack For Firefox Attack
Bug reporting system compromised by hackers and used to attack on Firefox users, Mozilla admits
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 cyber attack
Skype Fixes Text Chat Bug That Causes Perpetual Crashes
Update remedies nasty URL fault in IM chats that caused Skype clients to crash
iOS Bug Crashes Your iPhone With One Text
iPhones will restart following SMS containing Arabic text, user reports say
Apple Patches Safari Cookie Vulnerability
Security researcher reveals Safari browser bug that could have affected up to one billion Apple devices
MIT Boffins Reveal Groundbreaking Integer Overflow Debugger
New algorithm can identify integer overflows, one of the most widely encountered bugs in computer programs
Facebook Doubles Bug Bounty for Advertising Code Flaws
Double payout for discovery of advertising coding flaws demonstrates advertising importance to Facebook
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
Google’s Chat Service Redirected Messages To Random Contacts
Users complain about privacy, as their Google Hangouts and Google Talk messages reach wrong recipients
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
Bug Kills Facebook Search Privacy Tool
This time it is a bug rather than a Facebook decision that has caused concern
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
Do Not Disturb Bug Bothers iPhone Owners
Apple has another problem to deal with in iOS 6
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 too much anyway... Facebook and its users in a muddle
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
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
TomTom Sat-Navs Lose Their Way
A “leap year bug” blamed on the third-party software caused GPS navigation devices to lose the connection
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
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 Judge
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 available
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
Adobe Revokes DigiNotar Certs, Issues 13 Patches
Alongside patches for vulnerabilities in Reader and Acrobat, Adobe has removed DigiNotar as a trusted CA
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
RIM Patches Critical BlackBerry Enterprise Server Bug
RIM has fixed several critical bugs to do with the processing of images on BlackBerry Enterprise Server