Security News

HackingTeam’s global export license revoked (Help Net Security)
2016-04-06 20:59

The Italian Ministry of Economical Progress (Il Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico – MISE) has revoked HackingTeam’s licence to export their Galileo remote control software abroad. The Ministry’s...

WhatsApp Encryption A Good Start, But Far From a Security Cure-all (Threatpost)
2016-04-06 20:48

Security experts cheer WhatsApp for making end-to-end encryption available to one billion consumers, but say more work needs to be done to protect digital communications.

Researchers release PoC exploit for broken IBM Java patch (Help Net Security)
2016-04-06 20:09

Polish firm Security Explorations has had enough of broken patches for security vulnerabilities it has reported to vendors. On Monday, the company’s CEO Adam Gowdiak has published on the Full...

Ubuntu Patches Kernel Vulnerabilities (Threatpost)
2016-04-06 19:49

Several vulnerabilities in Ubuntu’s Linux kernel, including a use-after-free vulnerability and a timing side channel vulnerability, were patched today.