IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty has pledged to “hire about 25,000 professionals in the next…
Facebook Releases Free Certificate Transparency Monitoring Tool
Facebook makes freely available an internal tool used to monitor CT logs for new TLS…
KFC Warns 1.2 Million UK Customers of Colonel’s Club Breach
KFC Corporation warned 1.2 million of its UK-based Colonel’s Club members to reset their passwords…
Adobe Patches 31 Vulnerabilities, Flash Zero-Day Under Attack
As part of Patch Tuesday Adobe patched a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player the company…
Microsoft Patches Publicly Disclosed IE, Edge Vulnerabilities
Microsoft patched a half-dozen critical browser vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed, but apparently not…
Beta Firmware Updates Available for Vulnerable Netgear Routers
Netgear has built beta firmware updates for its Nighthawk routers vulnerable to a command injection…
Zcash Spurs Rash of Malicious Mining Software
Hackers are mining Zcash cryptocurrency surreptitiously on PCs infected with cleverly named programs such as…
DDoS tool encourages users to compete against each other for points
‘Sledgehammer’ tool encourages hackers to launch DDoS attacks – but there’s a sting in the…
News in brief: Trump scorns ‘meddling’ claims; outdated OS use ‘widespread’; teen ‘hackers’ arrested
Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news
Netgear routers have gaping remote access hole
Command injection made easy: you can simply append a system command to a certain router…