Security News

Google’s new rules for developers make Chrome extensions safer for all
2018-10-03 10:45

Google has announced a range of security changes to its Chrome browser that will make the use of extensions more secure.

Ex-NSA Developer Gets 5.5 Years in Prison for Taking Top Secret Documents Home
2018-09-26 09:03

A former NSA employee has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for illegally taking a copy of highly classified documents and hacking tools to his home computer between 2010 and 2015,...

Twitter Bug Sent Direct Messages to External Developers
2018-09-24 11:03

More Than 3 Million Users' DMs Leaked to Third PartiesTwitter has fixed a bug that sometimes sent a user's direct messages not only to the specified recipient, but also to unrelated, external...

App developers are STILL allowed to read your Gmails
2018-09-24 10:55

Google is still allowing third-party developers access to access its users’ Gmail data, it said in a letter to Senators last week.

Twitter API Flaw Exposed Users Messages to Wrong Developers For Over a Year
2018-09-22 10:48

The security and privacy issues with APIs and third-party app developers are something that's not just Facebook is dealing with. A bug in Twitter's API inadvertently exposed some users' direct...

Twitter Flaw Exposed Direct Messages To External Developers
2018-09-21 20:21

The company said it has issued a patch for the issue, which has been ongoing since May 2017.

Developer goes rogue, shoots four colleagues at ERP code maker
2018-09-20 22:25

Shooter dead and now named by cops, one worker in critical condition, two serious Cops have named the programmer who went on a gun rampage at WTS Paradigm – a US maker of enterprise resource...

TLS developers should ditch 'pseudo constant time' crypto processing
2018-08-21 10:17

Fixes for Lucky 13-type bugs could still be vulnerable More than five years after cracks started showing in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) network crypto protocol, the author of the "Lucky 13"...

Firefox axes add-ons, developer pushes back
2018-08-20 11:12

Mozilla has wiped 23 extensions from its directory of Firefox browser add-ons after finding what it says were inappropriate functions in the code.

Microsoft: 5 tips for developers to reduce malware false positives
2018-08-17 18:27

Digitally signing files and keeping a good reputation are among the best practices Microsoft lays out for developers.