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Bounty for Chromebook Hack Doubled to $100,000
Many companies seek to outsource the finding of vulnerabilities in their products to external hackers, offering monetary rewards in exchange for details on successful hacks that they can fix. In a show that should both display their faith in the security of the Chromebook as well as entice more hackers…
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Two Year Old Java Vulnerability Reappeared Thanks to Broken Patch
Back in 2013, Oracle released a patch for a critical security flaw in Java. Now it has been found that this patch was ineffectual and easily bypassed, once again making PCs and servers running even the latest version of Java vulnerable to it. The tracking code for this flaw in the…
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Adobe Issues Patch For Code-Execution Bug
Flash has long been at the heart of a debate over usability and security. The media player has long been used for everything from Youtube to online games, but it has often by problems with even the fixes containing problems. As a result, people are being told to avoid using the…
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Researcher Finds New Way to Hijack Drones Mid-Flight
It is often easy to forget that while the majority of drones making the news are operated by hobbyists and amateurs, the US government is rolling out a number of more expensive UAVs for use by first responders and the police. Now, security researcher at IBM, Nils Rodday has potentially thrown…
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One in Three Servers Affected by New TLS Decryption Hack
A new vulnerability has been discovered by security researchers that could be used to allow eavesdroppers to spy on the traffic between users and as many as one-in-three HTTPS servers. The problem arises due to the fact that many HTTP servers still support the outdated and now-insecure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)…
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Video Surveillance DVRs Exposed by Hard Coded Password
The security of devices that are internet accessible has become more and more critical in recent years. Recently cheap unsecured webcams have come under fire after many such devices were exposed by the Shodan search engine. Now as many as 46000 users of digital video recorders (DVRs) manufactured by Zhuhai RaySharp Technology…
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eBay Vulnerability Exposes Users to Data Theft and Phishing Attacks
The eBay site is used by millions of people and as a result, has a level of trust with its users buying and selling countless items each day. Imagine then, how lucrative a target this massive user base could be for an attacker. Check Point’s security researchers have found just…
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OpenSSL Bug Allowed Attackers to Decrypt HTTPS Traffic
The OpenSSL cryptographic library was recently updated in response to a high severity vulnerability that was found its code. The vulnerability made it possible for attackers to get hold of the decryption key used for traffic secured by HTTPS and other transport layer security methods. Thankfully, while the consequences of…
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Microsoft Edge Browser is Storing Private Browsing Data
With the jump to Windows 10, Microsoft also hoped to say goodbye to their old Internet Explorer browser, one often berated by the tech savvy. In Edge, they included many features that were already staples among rival browsers, one such feature being the InPrivate browsing mode. It has come to…
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Shodan Makes Snooping on Vulnerable Webcams Easy
Shodan is a search engine designed to allow users to search through information on devices that are connected to the internet. The site, named after the AI from the System Shock series of games has been around since 2009, making news ever since as it has allowed access to potentially unsafe…
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D-Link Wi-Fi Webcam Turned into a Network Backdoor
Vectra Networks researchers today released an article demonstrating how they turned a $30 D-Link Wi-Fi webcam into a backdoor onto its owner’s network. Installing a device like a networked webcam may seem like a riskless action, but when the device can allow hackers to access the same network it becomes…
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ARRIS Cable Modems Have “Backdoor in the Backdoor”
Up to 600,000 ARRIS cable modems could be vulnerable to hacks via a “backdoor in the backdoor”, according to security researcher Bernardo Rodrigues. Rodrigues, who works as a vulnerability tester for the Globo TV network in Brazil, revealed on his blog that he had “found a previously undisclosed backdoor on ARRIS…
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Fully Patched Adobe Flash Hit by New Zero-Day Update
Just as day follows night, and just as UbiSoft thinks up new and amazing game elements to strip away and charge microtransactions for, another zero-day exploit has been discovered for Adobe Flash. But this isn’t any old zero-day exploit, it’s an exploit found in the fully patched version of Flash.…
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Exploit Found In Netgear Routers
So we’ve all had those periods where we come home and think our stuff has been moved around, you know when you think you’ve put your keys down beside the door and you find them on the sitting room table. Now imagine that you came home and found that some…
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Wifatch: The Vigilante Malware
Malware. That one word which seems to inspire fear and dread in everybody who hears it, even more so when you’ve experienced it first hand on one of your many devices. Malicious Software, or Malware for short, is often used by people to spread itself over the internet or even…
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