Many companies seek to outsource the finding of vulnerabilities in their products to external hackers, offering monetary rewards in exchange for details on successful hacks ...
March 15, 2016 at 11:41 pm by Alexander Neil
Back in 2013, Oracle released a patch for a critical security flaw in Java. Now it has been found that this patch was ineffectual and easily bypassed, once again making PCs ...
March 11, 2016 at 8:25 pm by Alexander Neil
Flash has long been at the heart of a debate over usability and security. The media player has long been used for everything from Youtube to online games, but it has often by ...
March 11, 2016 at 10:20 am by Gareth Andrews
It is often easy to forget that while the majority of drones making the news are operated by hobbyists and amateurs, the US government is rolling out a number of more ...
March 3, 2016 at 11:30 am by Alexander Neil
A new vulnerability has been discovered by security researchers that could be used to allow eavesdroppers to spy on the traffic between users and as many as one-in-three ...
March 1, 2016 at 8:47 pm by Alexander Neil
The security of devices that are internet accessible has become more and more critical in recent years. Recently cheap unsecured webcams have come under fire after many such ...
February 18, 2016 at 9:45 am by Alexander Neil
The eBay site is used by millions of people and as a result, has a level of trust with its users buying and selling countless items each day. Imagine then, how lucrative a ...
February 3, 2016 at 9:15 pm by Alexander Neil
The OpenSSL cryptographic library was recently updated in response to a high severity vulnerability that was found its code. The vulnerability made it possible for attackers ...
January 29, 2016 at 1:39 pm by Alexander Neil
With the jump to Windows 10, Microsoft also hoped to say goodbye to their old Internet Explorer browser, one often berated by the tech savvy. In Edge, they included many ...
January 28, 2016 at 10:15 am by Alexander Neil
Shodan is a search engine designed to allow users to search through information on devices that are connected to the internet. The site, named after the AI from the System ...
January 27, 2016 at 10:59 am by Alexander Neil
Vectra Networks researchers today released an article demonstrating how they turned a $30 D-Link Wi-Fi webcam into a backdoor onto its owner’s network. Installing a ...
January 14, 2016 at 11:47 am by Alexander Neil
Up to 600,000 ARRIS cable modems could be vulnerable to hacks via a “backdoor in the backdoor”, according to security researcher Bernardo Rodrigues. Rodrigues, who works ...
November 21, 2015 at 4:45 pm by Ashley Allen
Just as day follows night, and just as UbiSoft thinks up new and amazing game elements to strip away and charge microtransactions for, another zero-day exploit has been ...
October 14, 2015 at 8:00 pm by Ashley Allen
So we’ve all had those periods where we come home and think our stuff has been moved around, you know when you think you’ve put your keys down beside the door and ...
October 9, 2015 at 8:39 pm by Gareth Andrews
Malware. That one word which seems to inspire fear and dread in everybody who hears it, even more so when you’ve experienced it first hand on one of your many devices. ...
October 3, 2015 at 9:50 am by Gareth Andrews
