News of software vulnerabilities often centers on products from well-known companies that potentially put large numbers of end users at risk. But a new report from software solutions company FlexeraRead More →
As a Reverse Engineer at Tenable, I investigate disclosed vulnerabilities in order to write remote plugins for the Nessus® vulnerability scanner. Each investigation is unique and presents its own setRead More →
Google releases fixes for newer devices and ejects apps following reports. It was a bad week for millions of Android phone users. Two critical vulnerabilities were disclosed but remain unpatchedRead More →
Second large Russian data breach released this week compromising millions across the world. Today, HEROIC obtained and validated a data breach of over 33 million accounts associated with Russian instantRead More →
The manufacturer USBKill.com has commercialized USB Kill 2.0, a USB dongle that is able to fry any computer through the USB ports. The Hong Kong-based technology manufacturer USBKill.com has createdRead More →
Triple whammy of bugs in popular open-source platform. Analysis The Xen project has today patched four security bugs in its open-source hypervisor – three potentially allowing guest virtual machines to takeRead More →
Hacking video demo shows government spyware in action.Have you ever wondered how does a government-sanctioned hacking actually work? Well, unless you are employed in a police department, or are aRead More →
In a nutshell Backdoor.OSX.Mokes.a is the most recently discovered OS X variant of a cross-platform backdoor which is able to operate on all major operating systems (Windows,Linux,OS X). Please seeRead More →
First off, this is dead simple and shouldn’t work, but it does. Also, there is no possible way that I’m the first one that has identified this, but here itRead More →
Two security experts from the Rapid 7 firm revealed that tens of thousands of CISCO ASA boxes are still vulnerable to the NSA EXTRABACON exploit. A few weeks ago theRead More →
