Security News

Ex-NSO Employee Accused of Stealing Spyware Source Code
2018-07-06 05:52

A former employee of Israel-based cyber arms dealer NSO Group has been accused of stealing spyware source code from the company and attempting to sell it for $50 million, Israel’s Justice Ministry...

The percentage of open source code in proprietary apps is rising
2018-05-22 12:05

The number of open source components in the codebase of proprietary applications keeps rising and with it the risk of those apps being compromised by attackers leveraging vulnerabilities in them,...

2 million lines of source code left exposed by phone company EE
2018-05-14 11:22

What should be secret AWS and API keys were (un)secured with the default password credentials: "admin" as the name, "admin" for a password.

PoS Malware ‘TreasureHunter’ Source Code Leaked
2018-05-10 20:04

The leak of point-of-sale malware source code is a double-edge sword to researchers who view it as boon to research, but a headache when it comes to inspiring future variants and attacks.

TreasureHunter PoS Malware Source Code Leaked Online
2018-05-10 15:25

New variants of the TreasureHunter point-of-sale (PoS) malware are expected to emerge after its source code was leaked online in March, Flashpoint warns. read more

IT must patch against Total Meltdown now: The source code is on GitHub
2018-04-25 13:37

A patch for Meltdown created an even bigger flaw for 64-bit Win7 and Server 2008 R2. Now, it's freely available.

They forked this one up: Microsoft modifies open-source code, blows hole in Windows Defender
2018-04-01 00:00

Rar! That's a scary bug A remote-code execution vulnerability in Windows Defender – a flaw that can be exploited by malicious .rar files to run malware on PCs – has been traced back to an...

Canadian Firm Linked to Cambridge Analytica Exposed Source Code
2018-03-27 05:59

Source code belonging to Canada-based digital advertising and software development company AggregateIQ has been found by researchers on an unprotected domain. The exposed files appear to confirm...

Apple Downplays Impact of iBoot Source Code Leak
2018-02-08 22:26

Apple said the leak of its iBoot source code will have little to no impact on iOS device security.

Source Code of iOS Security Component iBoot Posted on GitHub
2018-02-08 17:51

What appears to be the source code of iBoot, a key component of Apple’s iOS platform responsible for trusted boot operation, was posted on GitHub yesterday. read more