Security News

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.

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" ...

Apple Leaves CNNIC Root in iOS, OSX Certificate Trust Lists (Threatpost)
2015-04-09 14:57

When it was revealed late last month that a Chinese certificate authority had allowed an intermediate CA to issue unauthorized certificates for some Google domains, both Google and Mozilla reacted...