Darknet market's peacemaker sentenced to 11 years in prison

2020-09-07 06:01

Bryan Connor Herrell, aka "Penissmith" and/or "Botah" has been sentenced to 11 years for his work as a sort of problem solver on the Alphabay crime market.

A flaw in a library for the Go language could leave some applications vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks.

The Windows version of Jabber has been found to contain a remote code execution flaw which can be exploited simply by opening a message.

WhatsApp sinks six flaws, including remote code bug.

In each case, the flaws have already been patched, so users can protect themselves by making sure they're running the latest version of the WhatsApp software.

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