Twitter released a tool to detect anomalies called ‘AnomalyDetection’ tool. The tool is released as open source so that developers can make change according to their needs. Twitter is using this tool for quite sometime to detect anomalies like certain surge in users tweets due to some incident, major sporting Continue Reading
Google security researcher Forshaw published an exploit for an unpatched security flaw targeting Windows 8.1 machines. Forshaw defended his move for publishing the exploit as he has waited for 90 days after reporting to vendor about the flaw. Since then Microsoft has not come with a patch so he has Continue Reading
For the first time, Apple has released an auto update to fix a critical security flaw that targets the Network Time Protocol in Mac OS X clock systems. The reason for releasing auto update is due to easily exploited by attackers remotely. According to National Institute of Standards and Technology, Continue Reading
Due to ongoing controversy with the latest release film “The Interview”, Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox live faced disruption in services that believe to be a cyber attack. Service disruption extends to the second day after Christmas that means users are unable to play games and access entertainment channels during Continue Reading
‘mailx’ used for sending and receiving mail – widely used in several Linux distributions get the patch for two security flaws. Both the vulnerabilities occur due to improper parsing of email addresses and rated as “moderate”. CVE-2014-7844 covers the execution of arbitrary shell commands locally, whereas CVE-2004-2771 fixes the execution Continue Reading
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