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A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in Exim, a mail transport agent. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service, or poten…
It's not a Patch Tuesday, but Microsoft is rolling out emergency out-of-band security patches for two new vulnerabilities, one of which is a critical Internet …
The world of connected consumer electronics, IoT, and smart devices is growing faster than ever with tens of billions of connected devices streaming and sharin…
It's Patch Tuesday again'the day of the month when both Adobe and Microsoft release security patches for vulnerabilities in their software.Adobe has just relea…
Many people worry that quantum computers will be able to crack certain codes used to send secure messages. The codes in question encrypt data using trapdoor" m…
The ransomware attacks in Baltimore and other US cities appear to have a common thread: they're using NSA tools on the agency's home soil. In-the-know security…
A Chinese woman was arrested for sneaking into Trump's "Winter White House," a reminder of how exposed the president's private club is to physical and cybersec…
Cheap computers for the world's poor could mean big security headaches. The $100 One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is inviting hackers to break test out and …
As reported by a subscriber to the incidents mailing list at . "It appears that perhaps tens of thousands of username/passwords for valid shell logins ALL ACRO…
Steve Gibson recounts the steps he took to stop his attack from being subjected to a distributed denial of service attack. "I believe you will be as fascinated…
Here's a short editorial on fractal encryption. "A fractally encrypted message cannot be broken even by the senders. It is so secure as to be that way for it's…
"BEIJING -- China has eased tough new restrictions on encryption technology, announcing that a vast category of consumer software and equipment -- including mo…
"Open-source based software solutions provider TurboLinux on Tuesday announced that its server product has been deployed, along with a cluster of IBM Netfinity…
This is a very interesting article about the future of cryptography. David Lammers writes ... "At the Intel Developer Forum, Intel unveiled a copy protection s…
Microsoft today issued a new security advisory warning billions of Windows users of two new critical, unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities that could let hackers…
We are deeply sorry for the disruption this incident has caused our customers and partners. We know the trust they place in our services and take that responsi…
Someone managed to use stolen developer and bot accounts to fetch build credentials through ordinary-looking GitHub pull requests. The activity started on Nove…
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libspreadsheet-xlsx-perl. a Perl module for reading MS Excel 2007 files, which could result in denial of service or …
Carly Page reports: Britain’s privacy watchdog has put healthcare bosses on notice after receiving more than 300 reports of staff snooping through medical reco…
Three Trezor Safe 5 wallets bought from the reseller CryptoBilis contain an implant, an extra circuit board that can copy their recovery phrases, hardware wall…
libmongoc 1.30.15 Fixes Fix abort when parsing a cursor namespace without a dot separator. Fix possible abort in mongoc_gridfs_bucket_download_to_stream on inv…
libmongoc 1.30.15 Fixes Fix abort when parsing a cursor namespace without a dot separator. Fix possible abort in mongoc_gridfs_bucket_download_to_stream on inv…
British organizations have reported a record number of cyber incidents to the country’s data protection regulator this year, as cybersecurity firms blame data …
A new campaign dubbed 'wfx-loot' has unfolded on GitHub where threat actors used 4,837 compromised accounts to probe 61,764 repositories, open pull requests, a…