Security News

Dashlane, Researcher at Odds Over Potential Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Threatpost)
2017-07-24 18:54

Researcher Paulos Yibelo said that Dashlane elected not to patch a vulnerability he disclosed more than a year ago in all versions of the password manager application.

Researcher Analyzes Psychology of Ransomware Splash Screens (Security Week)
2017-07-24 15:26

The 'splash screens' of seventy-six different types of ransomware have been analyzed by a cyber-psychologist from De Montfort University. read more

Tor Project Opens Bounty Program To All Researchers (Threatpost)
2017-07-20 12:42

The Tor Project is launching a public bug bounty program to encourage security researchers to responsibly report issues they find in the software.

EFF offers legal advice to researchers at Black Hat, B-Sides and DEF CON (Help Net Security)
2017-07-13 19:48

Not all security researchers have someone to talk to and ask specific advice about the legal challenges that they could be faced while doing their work. If you are one of them, it’s good to know...

Researchers Remotely Hijack Oracle OAM 10g Sessions (Security Week)
2017-07-13 15:11

Two security researchers recently discovered an issue with improperly configured Oracle Access Manager (OAM) 10g that can be exploited by remote attackers to hijack sessions from unsuspecting...

Researcher Claims Samsung's Tizen OS is Poorly Programmed; Contains 27,000 Bugs! (The Hackers News)
2017-07-13 02:16

A researcher has claimed that Samsung's Tizen operating system that runs on millions of Samsung products is so poorly programmed that it could contain nearly 27,000 programming errors, which could...

Researcher Takes Over .IO Domains by Registering Name Servers (Security Week)
2017-07-11 15:39

A security researcher could have taken over thousands of .IO domains after being able to register four domain names of the top level domain (TLD)’s authoritative name servers. read more

Researchers Decrypt Satellite Phone Communication in Real-Time (Security Week)
2017-07-10 14:24

A group of security researchers detailed a real-time inversion attack against the GMR-2 stream cipher used in satellite phone communication, claiming it is much more efficient than previously...

Researchers Dissect Stealthy Backdoor Used by NotPetya Operators (Security Week)
2017-07-05 13:06

ESET security researchers have performed a detailed analysis of a stealthy backdoor used by the group behind the NotPetya destructive wiper and injected into the legitimate resources of tax...

Researchers Crack 1024-bit RSA Encryption in GnuPG Crypto Library (The Hackers News)
2017-07-04 00:32

Security boffins have discovered a critical vulnerability in a GnuPG cryptographic library that allowed the researchers to completely break RSA-1024 and successfully extract the secret RSA key to...