Eduard Kovacs

Facebook has awarded a researcher $10,000 for finding a serious vulnerability that could have been exploited remotely to delete any video from the social...

Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy has discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Cisco WebEx browser extension. Cisco’s initial fix does...

Overblown media reports describing critical infrastructure incidents can have a negative impact on cybersecurity in the industrial control systems (ICS) sector, experts have warned.

While the number of services affected by the OpenSSL flaw known as Heartbleed has decreased, the Shodan search engine has still found nearly 200,000...

A security researcher who took part in the Hack the Army bug bounty program managed to gain access to an internal Department of Defense...

Symantec has revoked numerous wrongly issued certificates, including for domains such as example.com and test.com. This is not the first time the security firm’s...

Global financial services company Western Union has admitted to facilitating wire fraud and it has agreed to forfeit $586 million as part of a...

Oracle has decided to give Java developers more time to ensure that their JAR files are not signed with the MD5 algorithm. Java Runtime...

The number of data breaches disclosed by organizations in the United States has increased by 40 percent in 2016 compared to the previous year,...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has made improvements to its information security program, but problems have still been identified in several areas, according...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has published the National Cyber Incident Response Plan (NCIRP), which aims to describe the government’s approach in dealing...

The investigation is ongoing, but Ukraine’s national power company Ukrenergo has confirmed that the recent electricity outage in the Kiev region was caused by...

Encrypted email provider ProtonMail announced this week the launch of a Tor hidden service whose role is to help combat the censorship and surveillance...

Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy discovered that a Chrome extension installed silently by Adobe last week had been affected by a cross-site scripting...

For the 10th anniversary of the Pwn2Own hacking contest, Trend Micro and the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) have introduced new exploit categories and they...

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning after the threat group calling itself Shadow Brokers has offered to sell...

A researcher claims to have received a $40,000 bounty from Facebook for finding a remote code execution vulnerability introduced by the ImageMagick image processing...

Germany-based security services provider Cure53 has conducted a security audit of Dovecot and determined that the software lives up to its reputation of being...

A researcher has disclosed a couple of unpatched vulnerabilities affecting the official McDonald’s website after the company ignored his attempts to responsibly report the...