UPDATE (May 24; 15.15 UTC)The InsiderPhD YouTube channel has now been reinstated. In a screenshot shared by Katie Paxton-Fear, YouTube said: “We’re pleased to let you...
The information security community has lost another leading light, after it was announced that prominent security researcher and DNS specialist Dan Kaminsky has died. The news was confirmed by Kaminsky’s...
A cease-and-desist notice targeting the security researcher who discovered vulnerabilities impacting Xerox printers has been squashed with the removal of a “few extracts of code” in...
A recent lapse in DEF CON’s warrant canary being updated on time should not be taken as a sign of a subpoena but was simply due...
Codecov users have been warned to take immediate action after the discovery of a credential-stealing backdoor that was active for three months. A statement from Codecov, which offers a range...
A new GitHub repository has been created to document and track the times when vulnerability disclosure has gone sour. The Research Threats project details historical legal battles between researchers and...
The rapid shift to a work-from-home model caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has ramped up penetration testing in enterprise environments, but questions remain over whether or not current...
GitHub users were forcibly signed out of their accounts yesterday (March 8) to protect against a security bug that could have exposed a user’s session cookies....
Women in information security face ongoing sexism and discrimination, and more than half believe it will be 10 years or more before they are treated equally...
While Covid-19 has, for now, put an end to in-person industry conferences in most countries, the infosec events calendar has nevertheless remained impressively busy. While some...
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