Cisco has released software updates for its ACE 4710 appliance to address a high severity command injection vulnerability.
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Over 700 Million Data Records Compromised in 2015: Report
Last year, 1,673 data breaches resulted in roughly 707 million data records being compromised worldwide, according to statistics from Gemalto’s Breach Level Index report.
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Securely Surfing the IoT Tsunami
The IoT wave is building like a thunderous tsunami, growing larger on the horizon by the day. What is missing from the conversation, however, is how large a role software plays in the IoT equation. Plugging something into the Internet does not make it work — it just makes it vulnerable. Value is created through the associated software. In fact, we have almost reached the point where the actual product or device and the associated software become a single logical unit to the consumer.
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University’s Tor Hacking Research Funded by DoD
In response to a motion filed by the defense in the case of an alleged Silk Road 2.0 administrator, a judge has confirmed that US authorities funded Carnegie Mellon University to conduct research on the Tor anonymity network.
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OpenSSL Preparing Patches for High Severity Flaws
The OpenSSL Project announced today that it will release versions 1.0.2g and 1.0.1s to patch several vulnerabilities, including ones rated “high severity.”
The updates are scheduled for release on March 1 between 1pm and 5pm UTC, OpenSSL developers informed users.
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Critical Drupal Updates Patch Several Vulnerabilities
Drupal has released versions 6.38, 7.43 and 8.0.4 to patch a total of ten vulnerabilities, including one rated critical.
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Apple Chief Calls FBI iPhone Case ‘Bad for America’
Apple chief Tim Cook went public Wednesday in his battle with the FBI, saying that unlocking an iPhone in the name of fighting terrorism would be "bad for America."
"I think safety of the public is incredibly important — safety of our kids, safety of our families is very important," Cook said during a television interview with ABC News.
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API Flaw Exposes Nissan LEAF Cars to Remote Attacks
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Continue readingHow Attackers Likely Bypassed Linode’s Two-Factor Authentication to Hack PagerDuty
In July 2015, operations performance management company PagerDuty advised customers to change their passwords after discovering that its systems had been breached.
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Baidu Browser Collects Mounds of User, Device Data: Report
Baidu Browser, a web navigation application available on Android and Windows devices, is collecting a large amount of personally identifiable data and transmitting it to Baidu servers without encryption, Citizen Lab researchers have discovered.
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