The EU has fixed a flaw in the powerful yet complex eIDAS digital identification system that let people authenticate as someone else.
Tag Archives: Vulnerability
PHP team fixes nasty site-owning remote execution bug
The PHP development team has fixed a bug that could allow remote code execution in some setups of the programming language.
Vulnerability in content distribution networks found by researchers
Researchers have found a flaw that could lead to denial of service attacks on content distribution networks around the world.
Robot Hotel says sorry about the buggy bedside bots
Japan’s Henn na Hotel says it’s “modified” the bots so pervs can’t exploit the ability to run unsigned code and spy on future guests.
Hacker breached servers used by NordVPN
NordVPN has been forced to admit that a hacker stole an expired TLS certificate key used to securely connect customers to its web servers.
Vatican launches smart rosary – complete with brute-force flaw
Now fixed, the Vatican’s new fitness-and-prayer eRosary and its accompanying app, Click to Pray, were found to have a serious privacy bug.
Samsung Galaxy S10 fingerprint reader beaten by $3 gel protector
The fingerprint reader on Samsung’s flagship S10 and Note10 smartphones can be spoofed with a $3 screen protector.
Pen testers find mystery black box connected to ship’s engines
It had an Ethernet connection to the ship LAN but was also connected to a Windows console on the bridge which was so bright at night the crew had covered it up. The assumption had been that it was meant to be there.
Update now! Windows users targeted by iTunes Software Updater zero-day
The flaw is a rare ‘unquoted path class’ described as “so thoroughly documented that you would expect programmers to be well aware…” But that’s not the case.
Hacker asking $300 for 250,000 records stolen from sex worker site
In spite of prostitution being legal in the Netherlands, this could lead to the same type of blackmail attempts/suicide from Ashley Madison.