Security News
As it faces a major lawsuit, Zoom is taking a significant step to bolster security and privacy efforts by recruiting an industry heavy-hitter - former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos - to provide special counsel. Zoom now says that it aims to clean up its issues from both the product side and by taking a high-level executive approach, Zoom founder Eric Yaun said in a blog post published Wednesday.
An infosec researcher has published a JavaScript-based proof of concept for the Netgear routerlogin.com vulnerability revealed at the end of January. Through service workers, scripts that browsers run as background processes, Saleem Rashid reckons he can exploit Netgear routers to successfully compromise admin panel credentials.
Capita Education Services had a bit of an oopsie yesterday as a new helpdesk system spurted potentially thousands of email addresses at unsuspecting users. A Register reader got in touch to express his surprise at receiving an email regarding a helpdesk ticket he didn't open, logged by someone he didn't know.
Easy-to-use exploits have emerged online for two high-profile security vulnerabilities, namely the Windows certificate spoofing bug and the Citrix VPN gateway hole. Within hours of the NSA going public with details about its prized bug find, exploit writers posted working code demonstrating how the flaw can be abused to trick unpatched Windows computers into accepting fake digital certificates - which are used to verify the legitimacy of software, and encrypt web connections.
Mass-mail fail followed outfit's appearance at jobs fair BT Security managed to commit the most basic blunder of all after emailing around 150 infosec professionals who attended a jobs fair –...
Government cares what you think. Honest A UK Home Office consultation on new, intrusive police powers was so incompetently written that you could both "strongly agree" and "strongly disagree" at...
64 bits of cert ID on the wall, 64 bits of ID. Take the top bit down, don't pass it around, 63 bits of cert ID on the wall... A bunfight over a controversial UAE mobile security company led to the...
What a difference a bit makes. 64 little flowers... brought the revokes and the scowls A mailing list bunfight over a controversial UAE mobile security company led to the discovery that millions...
Scant Detail on Incident and Unusual Email Notification Raises EyebrowsAmazon has blamed a technical error for its inadvertent exposure of some customers' names and email addresses online. The...