Security News

Viral phishing scams and vulnerabilities: What to watch out for this Patch Tuesday (Help Net Security)
2017-05-08 15:30

I am about to head to Las Vegas for Ivanti’s Interchange 2017 at The Mirage hotel and feeling a bit in a gambling mood, so I am going to take a shot at this month’s forecast and see if luck is on...

WordPress admins, take note: RCE and password reset vulnerabilities revealed (Help Net Security)
2017-05-04 18:59

Independent security researcher Dawid Golunski has released a proof-of-concept exploit code for an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in WordPress 4.6 (CVE-2016-10033), and...

Top-ranked programming Web tutorials introduce vulnerabilities into software (Help Net Security)
2017-04-21 19:07

Researchers from several German universities have checked the PHP codebases of over 64,000 projects on GitHub, and found 117 vulnerabilities that they believe have been introduced through the use...

Attacks exploiting software vulnerabilities are on the rise (Help Net Security)
2017-04-21 12:50

Attacks conducted with the help of exploits are among the most effective as they generally do not require any user interaction, and can deliver dangerous code without arousing user suspicion....

Record Oracle Patch Update Addresses ShadowBrokers, Struts 2 Vulnerabilities (Threatpost)
2017-04-19 11:20

Oracle released a record 299 patches, including a fix for a Solaris vulnerability disclosed by the ShadowBrokers, and another for the recently disclosed Apache Struts 2 flaw.