Security News

Manipulating WSUS to Own Enterprises (Threatpost)
2015-08-07 13:00

Researchers at Black Hat found a weak spot in some WSUS configurations that could allow an attacker to compromise any server or desktop in an enterprise.

File-stealing Firefox bug exploited in the wild, patch immediately! (Help Net Security)
2015-08-07 11:56

A critical Firefox vulnerability has been spotted being exploited in the wild. The bug, reported by security researcher Cody Crews, allows attackers to violate Firefox' same origin policy and injec...

EFF's Privacy Badger prevents users being tracked online (Help Net Security)
2015-08-07 11:18

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has finally released version 1.0 of Privacy Badger, a browser extension that blocks some of the sneakiest trackers that try to spy on your Web browsing habits. Mo...

Pentagon's unclassified email system breached, Russian hackers blamed (Help Net Security)
2015-08-07 10:12

Pentagon's Joint Staff unclassified email system, used by 4,000 military and civilian personnel, has been compromised by attackers, and it has been taken offline until the threat is dealt with. Acc...

The GasPot experiment: Hackers target gas tanks (Help Net Security)
2015-08-07 08:31

Physically tampering with gasoline tanks is dangerous enough, given how volatile gas can be. Altering a fuel gauge can cause a tank to overflow, and a simple spark can set everything ablaze. But imagi...

Vulnerabilities in 2015: 0-days, Android vs iOS, OpenSSL (Help Net Security)
2015-08-07 08:17

Secunia has taken an early peek at the trend in vulnerabilities for 2015, and has presented the results at Black Hat USA 2015. Seven months into the year, the number of detected zero-day vulnerabiliti...