Facebook just released details of how much it paid out in bug bounties for 2014. Rewards ranged from $500 to over $50,000…
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FreeBSD and the YARNBUG – more trouble at the Random Number Mill
How do you test your random number generator? How do you determine, in an ordered way, that a sequence of numbers is entirely disordered? With difficulty!
How one man could have deleted every photo on Facebook
Facebook is probably the biggest collection of photographs ever assembled so it would be pretty bad if one man could delete every last one of them with his phone. Thankfully that’s what Laxman Muthiyah thought too.
Patch Tuesday wrap-up, December 2014 – why “Important” can be Critical…
Adobe and Microsoft put forth their respective Patch Tuesday updates this week, bringing you their last scheduled patches of 2014. Paul Ducklin digs in…
Apple pulls iOS 8.0.1 update, tells users to roll back to iOS 8
Apple’s telling users to ditch the update after it knocked out cellular service and disabled Touch ID for iPhones, on top of a list of other glitches – stalling, crashing and more. 
Firefox sneaks out an “inbetweener” update, with security improvements rather than fixes
Usually, if everything goes according to plan, Firefox updates appear every six weeks. But if needs must, Mozilla delivers in-between updates, too, and that’s what has happened here, bumping Firefox from version 32.0 to 32.0.1.
Ransomware with a happy ending
Fortunately, not every cybercrook in the world is a good coder. Let’s hope it stays that way…
Linux “got root” kernel bug patched after five years at large
Here’s a kernel bug in Linux that turned out to have been sitting there, Heartbleed style, awaiting discovery and exploitation for several years. Paul Ducklin digs in…
