vulnerabilities

Five Year Old Flaw Fixed In Linux Kernel

A high severity bug in the Linux kernel remained undetected since 2009

11 years ago

AVG Slammed For Not Patching ‘Critical Flaws’

AVG fixes one of four vulnerabilities in remote administration tool, but researchers who uncovered the flaws aren't happy with the…

11 years ago

Traffic Systems Vulnerable To Hackers Wanting To Cause Road Chaos

Systems across the UK could be abused by hackers to cause delays or even accidents, claims researcher

11 years ago

Cisco Warns Of POS System Vulnerabilities

Recent attacks prompt Cisco to warn of the vulnerabilities surrounding point-of-sale devices

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

Surveillance Camera Flaws Let Hackers Snoop Too

D-Link surveillance and consumer cameras riddled with potentially serious vulnerabilities

12 years ago

GCHQ Announces £4.5m Vulnerability Research Unit

New Cyber Research Institute wants to find vulnerabilities automatically

12 years ago

Microsoft Readies Four Critical Fixes For Patch Tuesday

IE10 flaw uncovered by VUPEN during PWN2OWN not addressed in latest update

12 years ago

UPnP Networking Flaws Expose Tens Of Millions Of IPs To Hack Attacks

Flaws in UPnP libraries can be exploited on millions of networks, Rapid7 warns

12 years ago

VUPEN Finds Windows 8 Security Flaws – But Won’t Tell Microsoft

VUPEN will tell its customers, not Microsoft, about Windows 8 and IE10 vulnerabilities

12 years ago

Cyber Security Challenge Seeks Insider Espionage Experts

Challenge looks to find the corporate mole hunters of the future

12 years ago

Google Researchers Warn Of ‘Serious’ Unpatched Adobe Reader Flaws

Adobe's patching on Tuesday failed to cover a number of notable flaws

12 years ago

Huawei Routers Contain Multiple Vulnerabilities, Experts Claim

Security experts claim Huawei routers lack modern security measures and contain multiple vulnerabilities

12 years ago

Adobe Backtracks On Patching ‘PR Disaster’

Adobe has promised it will patch a flaw in Creative Studio CS5. Previously said users had to pay for an…

13 years ago

Malicious Attacks Spike As Flaws Fall In 2011

Vulnerabilities fall but cybercriminals take advantage of simple hacking tools and poor company security practices

13 years ago

IBM X-Force Security Report Balances Good News With Bad

Application vulnerabilities and spam are down, but attackers are finding new opeinings, according to the annual X-Force report

13 years ago

Open Source Code Is As Good As Proprietary, Says Coverity

Open source code scanned by Coverity had slightly fewer flaws per 1000 lines

13 years ago

McAfee To Issue Patch To Prevent Spam Hijacking

McAfee has promised to patch security issues in its hosted anti-malware service, including one that would turn a PC into…

13 years ago

Applications Riddled With Security Flaws: Veracode

The majority of applications scanned by Veracode's cloud-based testing tool held some kind of security flaw

13 years ago

Common Coding Errors Added To NIST Database

The expanded Samate Reference Dataset from NIST helps developers squeeze new bugs out of their code

13 years ago

Secunia To Handle Vulnerability Reporting Pain

Secunia is offering an alternative to bug bounties, by handling the vulnerability reporting process

13 years ago

Symantec: Mobile Malware Follows The Money

The malware threat in smartphones is only just beginning as criminals seek to find financial benefits

13 years ago

Low-Level Malware, Not APTs, Worry IT Professionals

Security professionals are more concerned about malware and spyware than “advanced persistent threats”

13 years ago

Microsoft Readies 64 Bug Fixes For Patch Tuesday

Microsoft is looking to fix 64 security vulnerabilities in this month's upcoming Patch Tuesday update

14 years ago

NSS Plans Superstore Exchange For Exploits

NSS Labs' Exploit Hub offers penetration testers and other security experts a marketplace for exploits for known vulnerabilities

14 years ago