Security News

Researchers find backdoor bug in NASA rovers' real-time OS (Help Net Security)
2015-09-14 13:06

A critical, remotely exploitable vulnerability in VxWorks, the world's most popular real-time operating system (RTOS), can be exploited by attackers to gain backdoor access to the systems using it. ...

Week in review: Android ransomware multiplies, FireEye censors researcher (Help Net Security)
2015-09-14 06:27

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Hacker had access to sensitive info about Firefox bugs for over a year Mozilla has announced that an attacker manage...

Researchers Outline Vulnerabilities in Yahoo, PayPal, Magento Apps (Threatpost)
2015-09-11 17:07

Researchers recently discovered a smattering of vulnerabilities in web applications and mobile applications belonging to companies like Yahoo, PayPal, Magento, and Shopify that could have led to...

FireEye legally censors crucial parts of a researcher's talk at 44CON (Help Net Security)
2015-09-11 11:23

Felix Wilhelm, a researcher with German security firm ERNW, was scheduled to give a talk at 44CON on Thursday about the critical vulnerabilities he and his colleagues found in a FireEye NX device runn...