Security News

VirusTotal launches 'Droidy' sandbox to detect malicious Android apps
2018-04-05 17:49

One of the biggest and most popular multi-antivirus scanning engine service has today launched a new Android sandbox service, dubbed VirusTotal Droidy, to help security researchers detect...

RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest 2018 finalists announced
2018-03-20 19:57

RSA Conference announced the 10 finalists for its annual RSAC Innovation Sandbox Contest. The competition offers a leading platform for entrepreneurial cyber security companies to launch their...

Online Sandbox Services Used to Exfiltrate Data: Researcher
2018-03-20 18:27

Attackers can use online sandbox services to exfiltrate data from an isolated network, a SafeBreach security researcher has discovered. The new research is based on the discovery that cloud...

Patched Flash Player Sandbox Escape Leaked Windows Credentials (Threatpost)
2017-08-10 19:00

One of yesterday's Flash Player patches was a do-over after the researcher who privately reported the problem earlier this year discovered the original patch incompletely resolved the issue.

UnifyID’s ingenious user authentication platform wins Innovation Sandbox Contest (Help Net Security)
2017-02-15 16:13

A panel of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and large security companies selected UnifyID from a group of 10 finalists as the winner of the Innovation Sandbox Contest at RSA Conference 2017. The...

RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest 2017 finalists announced (Help Net Security)
2017-01-18 12:15

RSA Conference announces the 10 finalists for its annual Innovation Sandbox Contest. The competition is dedicated to encouraging out-of-the-box ideas and the exploration of new technologies that...

Microsoft Silently Fixes Kernel Bug That Led to Chrome Sandbox Bypass (Threatpost)
2016-11-30 21:10

Microsoft appears to have silently fixed a two-year-old bug in in Windows Kernel Object Manager that could have allowed for the bypass of privileges in Google's Chrome browser.