Security News > 2017 > May

A high-severity vulnerability in sudo has been patched in a number of Linux distributions; the flaw allows local attackers to elevate privileges to root.

Cisco is prepping fixes for two of its products affected by last week's Samba vulnerability. Netgear has also pushed out a fix for NAS devices that were affected.

A vulnerability affecting the manner in which Sudo parsed tty information could have resulted in the user gaining root privileges and being able to overwrite any file on the filesystem on...

Google announced today new security features in Gmail, including the news that it will enhance early phishing detection in Gmail through dedicated machine learning.

In a new agreement, Cisco and IBM Security will work closer together across products, services and threat intelligence for the benefit of customers. Cisco security solutions will integrate with...

Symantec has been tracking the activities of a “lone wolf” hacker who has apparently developed a sophisticated piece of malware that he has used to access the systems of at least two major...

For six months, Trend Micro researchers operated a honeypot setup simulating several underground services on the Dark Web. The goal of their research was to see if those hidden services will be...

US aviation security officials stepped back Tuesday from imposing a ban on carry-on computers on flights coming from Europe, which had been proposed to guard against possible bomb-laden...

Samy Kamkar's MySpace Worm Launched a Prolific Hacking CareerSamy Kamkar became everyone's virtual friend in October 2005. His MySpace worm is still the most potent one ever unleashed on a social...