Tuesday, June 7th, 2016
After a long period of internal development and testing, our mighty little patching machine finally got wings and flew out of the nest.
This is BIG for us. We've invested a significant part of our last three years into building a technology and a business model that we believe can make ...
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2016
Updated TeamViewer users say their computers were hijacked and bank accounts emptied all while the software company's systems mysteriously fell offline. TeamViewer denies it has been hacked.
In the past 24 hours, we've seen a spike in complaints from people who say their PCs, Macs and servers were taken over via ...
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2016
This post is about a Man in the Middle (MitM) vulnerability in KeePass 2’s automatic update check. KeePass – the free and open source password manager – uses, in all versions up to the current 2.33, unencrypted HTTP requests to check for new software versions. An attacker can abuse this automatic update check – if enabled ...
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2016
Software makers like Microsoft put a lot of effort into ensuring that the operating system and application updates they deliver to your system are secure, so that hackers can’t hijack updates to get into your computer.
But it turns out that PC hardware makers are not so careful. An investigation conducted ...
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Monday, May 16th, 2016
The slow and inexorable slide to a world without Flash continues, with Google revealing plans to phase out support for Adobe's Flash Player in its Chrome browser for all but a handful of websites. And the company expects the changes to roll out by the fourth quarter of 2016.
While it ...
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