Security News

Academics Find Critical Flaws in Self-Encrypting Hardware Drives (Threatpost)
2015-10-20 18:04

Some consumer-grade, self-encrypting external hard drives from Western Digital are littered with security vulnerabilities that render their encryption an afterthought.

WordPress Fixes Critical Stored XSS Error in Akismet (Threatpost)
2015-10-15 17:29

Developers at Automattic fixed a stored cross-site scripting error this week in Akismet, the anti-spam plugin that figures into millions of WordPress websites.

Microsoft fixes critical flaws in all versions of Windows and Office (Help Net Security)
2015-10-14 14:49

This month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday brings fixes for 33 vulnerabilities. Nearly half of those are found in Internet Explorer, and most of them are critical as they could lead to remote code execu...