Today a collection of severe security vulnerabilities in the WPA2 encryption protocol for Wi-Fi are being disclosed, along with a proof of concept exploit. The weaknesses center around the process used for negotiating the encryption keys used by the client and access point. These core vulnerabilities …
Three of LG’s phones from its flagship G series were recently found to have vulnerabilities that would enable hackers to access files stored in the cloud using these handsets. The vulnerabilities are marked as high-severity issues, so owners should be wary of using their phones for …
The popular network packet analyzer Wireshark released version 2.6.5 yesterday afternoon with numerous bug-fixes. Following vulnerabilities, bugs has been fixed in Wireshark 2.6.5: The Wireshark dissection engine could crash. The DCOM dissector could crash. The LBMPDM dissector could crash. The MMSE dissector could go into an …
FreeBSD includes software from the OpenSSL Project for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. OpenSSL has multiple vulnerabilities on a FreeBSD. Currently, no workaround is available. You need to update OpenSSL on FreeBSD version 10.x and 11.x. Problem description From the …
After discovering a no fewer than seven security vulnerabilities in Safari for iOS and macOS, a researcher has received a $75,000 bug bounty pay out from Apple. Ryan Pickren, a former Amazon Web Services (AWS) security engineer, found a series of security flaws in Apple’s web …
