Security News

HP Releases Details, Exploit Code for Unpatched IE Flaws (Threatpost)
2015-06-22 19:11

Researchers at HP's Zero Day Initiative have disclosed full details and proof-of-concept exploit code for a series of bugs they discovered that allow attackers to bypass a key exploit mitigation...

Polish Planes Grounded After Airline Hit With DDoS Attack (Threatpost)
2015-06-22 17:45

Roughly 1,400 passengers were temporarily stranded at Warsaw’s Chopin airport over the weekend after hackers were purportedly able to modify an entire airline’s flight plans.

Google Fixes Handful of Bugs in Chrome (Threatpost)
2015-06-22 16:05

Google has fixed several vulnerabilities in Chrome, including a pair of cross-origin bypasses and a high-risk scheme validation error.

How to find a free, secure proxy service? (Help Net Security)
2015-06-22 15:39

There are several reasons one might want to use web proxy services, and depending on that reason, it might not be a very good idea to choose a free one randomly. Vienna-based developer Christian Ha...

Ubuntu Patches Privilege-Escalation Bug (Threatpost)
2015-06-22 14:16

There is a privilege-escalation vulnerability in several versions of Ubuntu that results from the fact that the operating system fails to check permissions when users are creating files in some...

Cyber attack grounds Polish LOT aeroplanes (Help Net Security)
2015-06-22 12:15

Around 1,400 unlucky travelers who were set to depart from Warsaw's Frederic Chopin Airport on Sunday had their flights cancelled or delayed for hours, as the computer system that issues flight plans ...

New password recovery scam hitting Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo Mail users (Help Net Security)
2015-06-22 11:37

A simple yet ingenious scam is being used by scammers to compromise accounts of Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo Mail users, Symantec researcher Slawomir Grzonkowski warns. "To pull off the attack, the bad...

The Secrecy of the Snowden Documents (Schneier on Security)
2015-06-22 11:13

Last weekend, the Sunday Times published a front-page story (full text here), citing anonymous British sources claiming that both China and Russia have copies of the Snowden documents. It's a...