An OpenSSH bug that was reclassified as a vulnerability after it was fixed has made scary headlines – but the sky isn’t falling
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Patch time! Adobe issues unexpected ‘critical’ fix for Photoshop CC
Adobe’s issued an urgent fix for two critical vulnerabilities affecting Photoshop Creative Cloud (CC) for Windows and macOS.
How an uploaded image could take over your website, and how to stop it
Bugs in the widespread graphics system Ghostscript could be exploited remotely by crooks – so here’s how to keep attackers at bay.
‘Foreshadow’ flaw found in Intel CPUs – what to do
For Intel and more than a billion computers with Intel CPUs, the microprocessor flaws just keep coming.
Your smart air conditioner could contribute to mass power outages
Researchers call the scenario BlackIoT: an IoT botnet of high-wattage devices that could crash the power grid.
Pacemaker controllers still vulnerable 18 months after flaws reported
A popular brand of heart pacemaker is still vulnerable to compromise more than a year and a half after the company that makes them was told of weaknesses in its security, researchers have claimed.
Police body cameras open to attack
A security researcher has revealed that police body cameras could put evidence – and even police officers themselves – at risk.
In-flight satellite comms vulnerable to remote attack, researcher finds
IOActive’s researcher Ruben Santamarta is the sort of person anyone interested in computer security would probably enjoy sitting next to on a long flight. Take the journey he made last November between Madrid and Copenhagen on Norwegian during which (naturally) he decided to use Wireshark to study the aircraft’s in-flight Wi-Fi.
Comcast Xfinity web flaws exposed customer data
It’s one thing to discover a data leak, it’s another to find out from a journalist that your website is leaking customer data.
Snapchat source code leaked on GitHub – but no one knows why
A chunk of Snapchat’s source code that wasn’t meant to be public just popped up on GitHub. Will this harm security?