Security News

Android Scoring System Roots Out Malicious, Harmful Apps (Threatpost)
2017-01-19 15:00

Google this week explained how it weighs potentially harmful Android apps using the Verify Apps malware scanner and a scoring system it calls Dead or Insecure.

Nagios Core Patches Root, RCE Vulnerabilities (Threatpost)
2016-12-16 16:00

Nagios Core has been updated to take care of two critical vulnerabilities that can be pinned together to attack servers hosting the open source IT infrastructure monitoring software.

Nagios 4.2.4 closes serious root privilege escalation bug (Help Net Security)
2016-12-16 13:30

If you’re using Nagios to monitor your systems, networks and infrastructure, and you have not updated to version 4.2.4, you better hop to it. This latest release fixes a high severity root...

Cryptsetup Vulnerability Grants Root Shell Access on Some Linux Systems (Threatpost)
2016-11-15 20:28

A vulnerability in cryptsetup, a utility used to set up encrypted filesystems on Linux distributions, could allow an attacker to retrieve a root rescue shell on some systems.

Android Root Exploits Abuse Dirty COW Vulnerability (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-25 15:11

App proves Rowhammer can be exploited to root Android phones and there's little Google can do to fully kill it (The Register)
2016-10-24 19:11

Linux Backdoor Doesnt Require Root Privileges (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-24 03:21

Linux Backdoor Doesn't Require Root Privileges (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-24 03:21

Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones is now a thing (ArsTechnica)
2016-10-23 23:36

Dirty COW explained: Get a moooo-ve on and patch Linux root hole (The Register)
2016-10-21 02:36