More from Hacking Team fiasco. For the third time in a week, a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe’s Flash Player browser plugin has been discovered. This was made known after hackers dumped 400GB of documents that were stolen Hacking Team. Should we be thankful to the hackers? I leave that answer to you. Personally, I think […]

More from Hacking Team fiasco. For the third time in a week, a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe’s Flash Player browser plugin has been discovered. This was made known after hackers dumped 400GB of documents that were stolen Hacking Team. Should we be thankful to the hackers? I leave that answer to you. Personally, I think […]

It didn’t take Jordan Wiens very long to find a vulnerability in United Airlines’ network, but the payoff was huge – one million free air miles for about six hours of work. Source: Sophos

For the third time in a week, researchers have discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe’s Flash Player browser plugin. Like the previous two discoveries, this one came to light only after hackers dumped online huge troves of documents stolen from Hacking Team — an Italian security firm that sells software exploits to governments around the world. […]

Last week, hacktivists posted online 400 GB worth of internal emails, documents and other data stolen from Hacking Team, an Italian security firm that has earned the ire of privacy and civil liberties groups for selling spy software to governments worldwide. New analysis of the leaked Hacking Team emails suggests that in 2013 the company used […]

A functionality of Microsoft Office that has been in use since the 1990’s can be exploited to deliver malicious, executable files to users. The security researcher who discovered it claims that widely used security software is not triggered when the executable files are run. The functionality or feature is the OLE Packager which is found […]

Patches, hacking and keeping your head down online: our weekly 1-minute fun news video that’s educational, too! Source: Sophos