Security News

Apple pushes out critical security updates for OS X, iOS, watchOS, and other products (Help Net Security)
2015-10-22 10:11

Apple has released security updates to fix critical vulnerabilities in the following Apple products: OS X El Capitan, Mavericks and Yosemite, OS X Server, Safari, watchOS, iOS, iTunes, Xcode, and Mac ...

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.