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...
Computer scientists who submitted supposed security patches that actually added security vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel have been placed under investigation by their university. Qiushi Wu and Kangjie...
As the Covid-19 pandemic places increasing strain on the global supply chain, ransomware attacks on the logistics industry have rocketed. A report published today (April 22) by security services provider...
Games publisher Valve has belatedly resolved a critical security flaw in its popular Steam platform that it was first notified of two years ago. However, a...
The widespread adoption of machine learning models in different applications has given rise to a new range of privacy and security concerns. Among them are ‘inference attacks’, whereby...
UPDATED Pressure is growing on games publisher Valve, after two sets of security researchers came forward with complaints that it has been slow at resolving security flaws...
Emissary, an open source, peer-to-peer (P2P) workflow engine developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA), contains vulnerabilities that attackers could chain to take over Emissary...
A security researcher earned a $6,000 bug bounty after uncovering a set of web security flaws that allowed attackers to play supposedly private YouTube videos. David Schütz (@xdavidhu)...
UPDATED A macOS vulnerability enabled attackers to execute malicious HTML within TXT files that, if opened by victims, could leak their IP address and, worse still, give...
A class of vulnerability detected in several Single Sign-On (SSO) services might allow attackers to hack into corporate systems, security researchers at NCC Group warn. SSO...
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