Facebook on Thursday patched a pair of vulnerabilities that enabled brute-force attacks against Instagram passwords, and also hardened its password policy. Researcher Arne Swinnen privately disclosed the flaws in December and in February respectively. One bug was patched in February, while the other went through two rounds of fixes before the issue was resolved on...

Reaction to the release of Google’s Allo messaging app has been mixed since it was unveiled Wednesday during Google’s I/O event. Allo has two modes, a normal mode run by an artificial intelligence that includes Google Assistant. It analyzes messages and offers suggestions based on the content that could include things like restaurant, movie or...

LinkedIn is striking back against a website attempting to monetize the 117 million usernames and passwords stolen from the company as part of a 2012 data breach. Website LeakedSource is reporting lawyers representing LinkedIn have served the company a cease and desist order on Wednesday alleging the company is in violation of California’s Computer Fraud...

When it comes to cloud computing, APIs more or less drive everything, but in the eyes of some researchers, existing security controls around them haven’t kept pace. While individual components of a system can be secure, when that system gets deployed in the cloud it can often become insecure – and get worse at scale, according to Erik...

ISP equipment maker Ubiquiti Networks is fending off a stubborn worm targeting its networking equipment running outdated AirOS firmware. According to security experts, the worm is already being blamed for crippling networking gear in the Argentina, Brazil, Spain and the United States. Ubiquiti confirmed the infection via a user forum, notifying customers that there are...

Over 117 million LinkedIn user logins are for sale on the black market “The Real Deal” by hacker “Peace” for five Bitcoins ($2,280). The breach is tied to an earlier hack on LinkedIn in 2012, when the company originally said 6.5 million accounts had been compromised. The hacker, identified as Peace, claims the the data...

Security researchers at Skycure are upping the ante on a vulnerability that it says now leaves 95.4 percent of Android devices vulnerable to an attack that hands over control of a phone or tablet to an attacker. First reported at the RSA Conference in March, Skycure discovered a theoretical attack that involves the exploitation of...

Google clarified this week exactly when it plans to disable support for the RC4 stream cipher and the SSLv3 protocol on the company’s SMTP servers and Gmail’s web servers. It turns out the end will come sooner than later; the company announced it will begin to disable both a month from now, on June 16....

Apple on Monday rolled out a series of patches for nearly all of its operating systems, OS X, iOS, its smart watch operating system, watchOS, and Apple TV’s tvOS, along with fixes for both iTunes and Safari. OS X received the lion’s share of the updates, 67 in total, bringing Apple’s operating system El Capitan to...

Pen-testing engagements are generally a breeze for most red-teamers; roadblocks are few, despite the ones in place being expensive and often paid for by very large companies. Chris Nickerson has been running such engagements for 15 years and he sees companies that throw more money and more servers at security solutions as having far less...