Security News

Risky Schneider Electric SCADA Vulnerabilities Remain Unpatched (Threatpost)
2015-08-17 19:11

Vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric SCADA gear remain unpatched close to two weeks after they were disclosed during DEF CON.

Using BitTorrent Vulnerabilities to Launch Distributed Reflective DoS Attacks (Threatpost)
2015-08-17 17:42

Researchers warn several BitTorrent protocols can be leveraged to carry out distributed reflective denial of service (DRoS) attacks.

Apple fixes a bucketload of vulnerabilities in everything (Help Net Security)
2015-08-14 09:39

Apple has pushed out updates for OS X Yosemite, OS X Server, iOS and Safari, fixing a bucketload of critical and less critical vulnerabilities. While the OS X Server update contains only a patch fo...

Facebook Awards $100,000 for New Class of Vulnerabilities and Detection Tool (Threatpost)
2015-08-12 23:00

Facebook doubles the payout of its Internet Defense Prize with a $100,000 award to a team of Georgia Tech researchers for a new class of browser-based memory-corruption vulnerabilities and a...

Vulnerabilities Identified in Several WordPress Plugins (Threatpost)
2015-08-12 19:59

Researchers have identified a handful of vulnerabilities present in three different plugins used by the content management system WordPress.