Online social networking service Twitter has launched a bug bounty program in an effort to eliminate the security flaws by giving the opportunity to researchers to formally disclose vulnerabilities and in return get the reward. Twitter has outsourced this program to HackerOne. Although there is no maximum limit for the Continue Reading
Latest Firefox implements support for public-key pinning feature. This newly added feature validates the authorization of a server based on an internal list of trusted certificates. Secure communication can be accomplished by encrypting the data, based on a digital certificate issued by any Certificate Authority (CA) and then verify the Continue Reading
Google Chrome latest version 37.0.2062.94 got 50 security fixes last Tuesday. Security researcher ‘lokihardt@asrt’ received a huge amount of $30,000 for finding out flaws in Chrome JavaScript engine V8, the Inter-process Communication (IPC), the data synchronization component and extensions. Most of the vulnerabilities allow remote code execution. Besides this other Continue Reading
Social networking giant Facebook will soon release an update for its messenger app. The patch will fix the issue on iOS that allows attackers to make calls automatically from users’ phones by clicking on web link. Andrei Neculaesei a developer from Copenhagen discovered the flaw which can be triggered through Continue Reading
The issue is being first reported by Teofil Cojocariu, a researcher with the Cyber Security Research Center from Romania (CCSIR) in June when Facebook added a new feature allowing administrators to refresh the content of attachments. Cojocariu created an exploit that can cause DDoS attacks through Facebook datacenters. After Facebook Continue Reading
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