Adobe’s announcement that it has retooled—and renamed—Flash is a longterm signal that the vulnerable and fatigued platform is on its last legs.
Tag Archives: Vulnerabilities
Cisco Patches WebEx App for Android, Warns of Unpatched Flaws
Cisco patched its WebEx mobile app for Android, and published advisories warning of vulnerabilities in three other products.
Advantech ICS Gear Still Vulnerable to Shellshock, Heartbleed
Rapid7 disclosed that Advantech EKI industrial control gear remains vulnerable to Shellshock and Heartbleed, in addition to a host of other vulnerabilities.
Google Ends Chrome Support on 32-bit Linux, Releases Chrome 47
Google released Chrome 47 this week and announced that it will end Chrome support for older, 32-bit Linux distributions early next year.
Embedded Devices Share, Reuse Private SSH Keys, HTTPs Certificates
Thousands of embedded devices share cryptographic keys and certificates, exposing millions of connections to man-in-the-middle attacks.
LinkedIn Fixes Persistent XSS Vulnerability
LinkedIn fixed a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability in its site this week that could have spread a worm on the service’s help forums.
Carnegie Mellon Says It Was Subpoenaed-And Not Paid-For Research On Breaking Tor
Carnegie Mellon University implied in a statement that it received a subpoena requesting its research on breaking Tor hidden services, and also implied it was not paid $1 million for the work as alleged by the Tor Project.
Inside the Conficker-Infected Police Body Cameras
A Florida integrator who discovered the Conficker worm lurking in body cameras meant for police use takes Threatpost inside the story, including a frustrating disclosure with a disbelieving manufacturer.
Adobe Pushes Hotfix for ColdFusion
Adobe patched vulnerabilities in ColdFusion, LiveCycle Data Services and Premiere Clip for iOS.
Patched Libpng Vulnerabilities Have Limited Scope
Most applications, including Firefox, are not vulnerable to a pair of memory corruption vulnerabilities patched in the libpng PNG reference library.