Security News > 2016 > August

Google Patches Dozens of Critical Qualcomm Components Flaws (Threatpost)
2016-08-01 18:00

Google today in the monthly Android Security Bulletin patched more than three-dozen critical vulnerabilities in Qualcomm components.

Google Domain Enables HSTS Protection (Threatpost)
2016-08-01 17:54

Google ensures HTTPS connections to its domains with support for HTTP Strict Transport Security, or HSTS.

Innovative techniques allow malvertising campaigns to run for years (Help Net Security)
2016-08-01 17:53

A threat actor dubbed AdGholas has been mounting successful malvertising campaigns by using innovative targeting and obfuscation techniques, and has been infecting thousands of victims every day...

New Technique Checks Mitigation Bypasses Earlier (Threatpost)
2016-08-01 17:00

Researchers at Endgame are expected at Black Hat to introduce Hardware Assisted Control Flow Integrity (HA-CFI), which leverages features in the micro-architecture of Intel processors for security.