Adobe has issued a new fix addressing a vulnerability in Reader it thought it had fixed on 12 February as part of Patch Tuesday.
Tag Archives: Security threats
Microsoft fixes web server DDoS bug
Overzealous use of HTTP/2 flow control settings in IIS could have brought servers to their knees.
Password managers leaking data in memory, but you should still use one
Several popular password managers appear to do a weak job at scrubbing passwords from memory once they are no longer being used.
Hacker Lauri Love denied bid to get computers back
Hacker Lauri Love has failed to get his computers back six years after UK’s National Crime Agency took them as part of a criminal investigation.
Hackers unleash social media worm after bug report ignored
Is it ok to launch a benign proof of concept that you know will go wide, to bring a flaw to people’s attention, or should you stay quiet?
Fake text generator is so good its creators don’t want to release full version
OpenAI has created what amounts to a text version of a deepfake – and it’s too scared for humanity to release the full version.
Photography site 500px resets 14.8 million passwords after data breach
Photography website 500px has become the latest site to admit suffering a serious data breach.
What’s behind this 1,000-character phishing URL?
Bleeping Computer learned of a strange phishing campaign which uses an unusually long URL – but why?
Google paid out $3.4m in bug bounties last year
317 researchers from 78 countries turned 2018 into a worldwide bug-crunching spree.
Update now! Microsoft and Adobe’s February 2019 Patch Tuesday is here
Internet Explorer (IE) may have launched way back in 1995 but nearly a quarter of a century later it’s still creating work for Microsoft and Windows users.