Microsoft released an emergency update for a zero-day vulnerability disclosed by Google in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine bundled with most versions of Windows.
Adobe Patches Seven Critical Vulnerabilities in Flash, AEM
Adobe fixed eight vulnerabilities, seven critical, in Flash Player and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms product as part of its regularly scheduled updates Tuesday morning.
Google’s OSS-Fuzz Finds 1,000 Open Source Bugs
Google said Tuesday that its OSS-Fuzz project has unearthed over 1,000 bugs, a quarter of them potential security vulnerabilities.
Microsoft Plugs Three Zero Day Holes as Part of May Patch Tuesday
Microsoft patched three zero day vulnerabilities actively under attack today as part of its May Patch Tuesday release.
Are you encrypting your documents? Here’s what happens when you don’t
It was bad enough when a university’s unencrypted salaries spreadsheet when missing two years ago – and then it popped up again
News in brief: Macron shrugs off email dump; warning on new ‘crazy bad’ flaw; Facebook tips on fake news
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Dating site users spammed with smut after ‘third-party’ data leak
The publisher’s blaming a third-party contractor and “human error.”
Downloading Chrome for Android? Be careful – we’ve found an evil twin
Techniques used to poison a version of the Android Chrome browser with Andr/SandRat-C, Andr/Rootnik-AH are finding their way into other apps – and into the Play Store
Lawyers demand answers after artist forced to unlock his phone
Artist who arrived home in San Francisco faced ‘unconstitutional’ demands to unlock his phone
Google Researchers Find Wormable 'Crazy Bad' Windows Exploit
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Two Google security experts have found a severe remote code execution (RCE) bug in the Windows OS, which they’ve described as “crazy bad.” The two experts are Natalie Silvanovich and Tavis Ormandy,…