Security News

Critical Flaws Found in Solar Panels Could Shut Down Power Grids (The Hackers News)
2017-08-08 01:39

A Dutch security researcher has uncovered a slew of security vulnerabilities in an essential component of solar panels which could be exploited to cause widespread outages in European power grids....

Critical Vulnerabilities Found in Mitsubishi HMI Tool (Security Week)
2017-08-02 13:02

ICS-CERT and Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) have disclosed the details of several critical vulnerabilities affecting Mitsubishi Electric’s E-Designer, a tool used for programming E1000...

Critical Vulnerabilities Found in Nuke Plant Radiation Monitors (Security Week)
2017-07-27 14:36

Critical Vulnerabilities Found in Radiation Monitors Used in Nuclear Power Plants, Seaports and Airports read more

Critical Vulnerability Found in Diebold ATM Machine (Security Week)
2017-07-26 21:40

Seattle-based IOActive has issued a critical security advisory detailing a physical and authentication bypass in the Diebold Opteva ATM. "IOActive has discovered two vulnerabilities in Opteva ATMs...

Apple patches critical Broadpwn vulnerability in its various OSes (Help Net Security)
2017-07-20 20:03

Apple has released security updates for iOS, macOS (Sierra, El Capitan, and Yosemite), Safari, iCloud, iTunes, watchOS and tvOS. As per usual, the same fixed Webkit flaws abound in all of the...

Critical Code Injection Flaw In Gnome File Manager Leaves Linux Users Open to Hacking (The Hackers News)
2017-07-20 03:54

A security researcher has discovered a code injection vulnerability in the thumbnail handler component of GNOME Files file manager that could allow hackers to execute malicious code on targeted...

Critical security vulnerabilities enable full control of the Segway miniPRO electric scooter (Help Net Security)
2017-07-19 19:54

New IOActive research exposes critical security vulnerabilities found in the Segway miniPRO electric scooter. If exploited, an attacker could bypass safety systems and remotely take control of the...

Organizations Slow to Patch Critical Memcached Flaws (Security Week)
2017-07-18 11:56

Tens of Thousands of Internet-Exposed Memcached Servers Are Vulnerable to Attacks Tens of thousands of servers running Memcached are exposed to the Internet and affected by several critical...

Cisco Patches Another Critical Ormandy Bug in WebEx Extension (Threatpost)
2017-07-17 20:26

Researchers Tavis Ormandy and Cris Neckar privately disclosed a critical vulnerability in Cisco's WebEx extension for Chrome and Firefox that allows for remote code execution.