Security

New iPhone exploit checkm8 is unpatchable and can possibly lead to permanent jailbreak on iPhones

An unnamed iOS researcher that goes by the Twitter handle @axi0mX has released a new iOS exploit, checkm8 that affects…

5 years ago

Researchers release study into Bug Bounty Programs and Responsible Disclosure for ethical hacking in IoT

On September 26, a few researchers from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands, released a research…

5 years ago

DoorDash data breach leaks personal details of 4.9 million customers, workers, and merchants

Today, DoorDash revealed to its users that their platform suffered a major data breach on May 4, 2019, affecting approximately…

5 years ago

How has ethical hacking benefited the software industry

In an online world infested with hackers, we need more ethical hackers. But all around the world, hackers have long…

5 years ago

A zero-day pre-auth vulnerability is currently being exploited in vBulletin, reports an anonymous researcher

Update: Six days after an anonymous researcher had disclosed a zero-day pre-auth remote code execution vulnerability in vBulletin, Cloudflare has…

5 years ago

Click2Gov software vulnerable for the second time; breach hits 8 US cities

A vulnerable municipality software, Click2Gov, is known to be part of a breach involving eight cities last month, Threatpost reports.…

5 years ago

MITRE’s 2019 CWE Top 25 most dangerous software errors list released

Two days ago, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced MITRE’s 2019 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Top 25 Most…

5 years ago

Emotet, dangerous botnet spams malicious emails, “targets 66,000 unique emails for more than 30,000 domain names” reports BleepingComputer

Three days ago, Emotet, a dangerous malware botnet was found sending malicious emails to many countries around the globe. The…

5 years ago

LastPass patched security vulnerability from the extensions generated on pop-up windows

Last week, the team behind LastPass, a password manager website, released an update to patch a security vulnerability that exposes…

5 years ago

An unsecured Elasticsearch database exposes personal information of 20 million Ecuadoreans including 6.77M children under 18

Data leaks have become commonplace. Every week we hear of at least one data breach that has existed maybe over…

5 years ago