In its latest transparency report, CloudFlare says that the number of subpoenas it has received has remained steady since last year, but the volume of court orders has more than doubled since the second half of last year. While much of the data from CloudFlare’s report for the first half of 2015 closely mirrors the […]
Tag Archives: Web Security
Flash Player Update Patches Two Hacking Team Zero Days
Adobe today patched two zero day vulnerabilities discovered in data from the Hacking Team breach. It also released updated versions of Acrobat, Reader and Shockwave.
United Airlines Hands Out Million-Mile Bug Bounty
Security researcher Jordan Wiens was awarded one million miles after submitting a remote code execution bug to United Airlines’ bug bounty program.
Mozilla Disables Flash in Firefox
As the zero days in Adobe Flash continue to pile up, Mozilla has taken the unusual step of disabling by default all versions of Flash in Firefox. The move is a temporary one as Adobe prepares to patch two vulnerabilities in Flash that were discovered as a result of the HackingTeam document dump last week. […]
Kaseya Patches Two Bugs in VSA IT Management Platform
A researcher has uncovered a pair of vulnerabilities in the Kaseya VSA IT management platform, including an open redirect that could be used to force users to visit an attacker-controlled sites. Kaseya VSA is a platform designed to handle a wide variety of IT management tasks, including audit, inventory, security, patch management, backup and recovery, […]
Hacking Team Promises to Rebuild Controversial Surveillance Software
Hacking Team promised to rebuild its controversial surveillance software while two more Adobe Flash Player zero day vulnerabilities were uncovered.
New PHP Releases Fix BACKRONYM MySQL Flaw
Several new versions of PHP have been released, all of which contain a number of bug fixes, most notably a patch for the so-called BACKRONYM vulnerability in MySQL. That bug in MySQL is caused by a problem with the way that the database software handles requests for secure connections. Researchers at Duo Security disclosed the […]
Census Project Identifies Open Source Tools at Risk
The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative announced it was releasing to open source data from the Census Project, which uses metrics identify under-resourced open source projects at risk.
U.S. Government Wades Into Vulnerability Disclosure
Security researchers and software vendors have spent decades trying to work out the process of vulnerability disclosure, with limited success. Now the federal government is joining the fray in hopes of getting the two sides to play nice. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a unit of the Department of Commerce, is launching what it […]
APT Group Exploiting Hacking Team Flash Zero Day
Security company Volexity said that the Wekby APT group, allegedly responsible for hitting Community Health Systems last year, is using the Hacking Team Flash Player zero-day exploit.