Security News

Bug in OS X Yosemite allows attackers to gain root access (Help Net Security)
2015-07-23 12:42

Security researcher Stefan Esser has revealed the existence of a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), and has provided a working proof of concept local exploit that inst...

Bug in latest version of OS X gives attackers unfettered root privileges (ArsTechnica)
2015-07-22 19:12

Microsoft quietly pushes 18 new trusted root certificates (Reddit)
2015-06-29 01:14

CVE-2015-1328: incorrect permission checks in overlayfs, ubuntu local root (Reddit)
2015-06-16 06:11

Let's Encrypt Root and Intermediate Certificates (Reddit)
2015-06-05 00:17

CVE-2015-3459 - Hospira Lifecare PCA infusion pump (the thing by hospital beds that pump medication into IVs) does not require authentication for Telnet sessions, which allows remote attackers to gain root privileges (Reddit)
2015-05-04 19:04

Automate root cause prevention of network compromise (Help Net Security)
2015-04-24 11:15

FireMon announced at RSA Conference 2015 significant advancement of its core platform through the introduction of Security Manager 8.0, which leverages highly automated analysis and monitoring of secu...

NetNanny Found Using Shared Private Key, Root CA (Threatpost)
2015-04-21 18:43

An issue with the content-control software NetNanny could open users’ systems up to man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks, HTTPS spoofing and intercept, researchers warned Monday.

Update: CNNIC Root and EV CAs will no longer be recognized in Google products (Reddit)
2015-04-12 11:57

Latest OS X update closes backdoor that allows root access (Help Net Security)
2015-04-10 11:26

On Thursday Apple released another batch of updates for a variety of its products. The security update for OS X Yosemite (10.10.3) includes a fix for a four-year-old "backdoor API to root privileges" ...