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Tag Archives: Vulnerability
Researchers discover weakness in IoT digital certificates
IoT devices are using weak digital certificates that could expose them to attack, according to a study released over the weekend.
Plundervolt – stealing secrets by starving your computer of voltage
Turns out that if you drop your CPU voltage just enough, it makes mistakes that could let you sneak in where you shouldn’t.
Npm patches two serious bugs
JavaScript package users have been warned to update due to a bug that could enable an attacker to infect them with malicious applications.
December Patch Tuesday blunts WizardOpium attack chain
December 2019’s Patch Tuesday updates are, including a fix for the Windows flaw used in recently discovered WizardOpium attacks.
FTC warns Christmas buyers that smart toys are a security risk
Thinking of giving a young person an internet-connected ‘smart’ toy this Christmas? You may want to think again.
Serious Security: Understanding how computers count
The hard disks that fail abruptly at 32,768 hours of use – why simply ‘adding 1’ can send you into oblivion.
Networking attack gives hijackers VPN access
Researchers have discovered a flaw in macOS, Linux, and several other operating systems that could let attackers hijack VPN connections.
HackerOne pays $20,000 bounty after breach of own systems
In an embarrassing twist, bug bounty platform HackerOne has paid a $20,000 reward to a researcher who reported a security flaw inadvertently caused by one of its staff during… a bug submission.
OpenBSD devs patch authentication bypass bug
One of the internet’s most popular free operating systems allowed attackers to bypass its authentication controls.