Wednesday, May 7, 2014
4Chan Launches Bug Bounty Program
In late April, Chris Poole, aka moot, the founder of 4chan, announced that the image-based bulletin board had suffered a data breach. To prevent future incidents, the company has not only implemented additional security measures, but it has also launched a bug bounty program.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Google cooperating with NSA?
National Security Agency head and Internet giant’s executives have coordinated through high-level policy discussions
Dropbox told about vulnerability in November 2013
Dropbox was contacted yesterday by the media, investigating the claims being made by Intralinks – a file sharing and collaboration service for enterprises – after it revealed that it had stumbled across individuals’ mortgage applications and income tax returns
Friday, May 2, 2014
Serious security flaw in OAuth and OpenID discovered
serious vulnerability "Covert Redirect" flaw can masquerade as a login popup based on an affected site's domain. Covert Redirect is based on a well-known exploit parameter.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Microsoft issues patch for critical Internet Explorer flaw
Microsoft has released a patch for all versions of Internet Explorer. Windows users should "check for update" or visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
Google stops scanning Apps for targeted Ads
Google will also soon stop scanning the accounts of Google Apps customers with Business, Government and legacy accounts for the free version.
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