Collaborate Disseminate
Oracle fixed a record 276 vulnerabilities – more than half of which are remotely exploitable – as part of its July Critical Patch Update on Tuesday afternoon. Continue reading Oracle Patches Record 276 Vulnerabilities with July Critical Patch Update
A U.S. Federal Court sentenced Christopher Correa to almost four years in prison for hacking into a computer system that belongs to the Houston Astros. Continue reading Ex-Cardinals Exec Sentenced Four Years for Astros Hack
Apple fixed dozens of vulnerabilities across its software on Monday, including 60 vulnerabilities in its operating system, OS X, and 43 in its mobile operating system, iOS.
Continue reading Apple Fixes Vulnerabilities Across OS X, iOS, Safari
Canonical’s CEO claims a SQL injection vulnerability led to the hack of Ubuntu’s Two million user strong forums. Continue reading Two Million Passwords Breached in Ubuntu Hack
Attackers behind the Neutrino Exploit Kit didn’t take long to co-op a recently patched Internet Explorer zero-day into its arsenal. Continue reading Patched IE Zero Day Incorporated into Neutrino EK
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including privacy and Pokemon GO, a new MIT anonymity system, the Fiat Chrysler bug bounty program, and a patched printer spooler vulnerability.
Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, July 15, 2016
Digital rights advocates are again pleading with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to reconsider standardizing DRM in Encrypted Media Extensions, a draft specification that would ultimately feed into HTML 5.
Continue reading Digital Rights Advocates Call for Investigation Around W3C’s DRM Extension
Developers with the open source content management framework Drupal patched a series of highly critical remote code execution bugs in three separate modules today. If exploited, the bugs could let an attacker take over any site running the modules.
Continue reading Drupal Patches Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Three Modules
Riffle, a new anonymity network concocted by MIT researchers, can guarantee anonymity among a large group of users, as long as there’s one honest server. Continue reading MIT Anonymity Network Riffle Promises Efficiency, Security
Niantic said Monday night it wasn’t the company’s intent to request full access permission of its users’ Google accounts via Pokémon GO. Continue reading Google, Niantic to Limit Data Pokémon GO Collects