Big companies have embraced the cloud more slowly than expected. Some are holding back because of the cost. Others are wary of entrusting sensitive data to another firm’s servers. Should companies be doing most of their computing in the cloud?

Cisco Systems officials are warning customers of a series of attacks that completely hijack critical networking gear by swapping out the valid ROMMON firmware image with one that's been maliciously altered. The attackers use valid administrator credentials, an indication the attacks are being carried out either by insiders or people who have otherwise managed to get hold of the highly sensitive passwords required to update and make changes to the Cisco hardware.

The recent Firefox attacks are an example of active in-the-wild exploitation of a serious software vulnerability. On the August 6th, the Mozilla Foundation released a security update for the Firefox web browser that fixes the CVE-2015-4495 vulnerability in Firefox’s embedded PDF viewer, PDF.js. This vulnerability allowed attackers to bypass the same-origin policy and execute JavaScript remotely that will be interpreted in the local file context.

TCP connections transitioning to the LAST_ACK state can become permanently stuck due to mishandling of protocol state in certain situations, which in turn can lead to accumulated consumption and eventual exhaustion of system resources, such as mbufs and sockets.

Domain biz offers 'DNS Firewall'

Firefox has been leaking your data to the likes of Google and other ad based platforms. Firefox-Debloat is a project aiming to take on and stop data leaks!

Reports that Sony Pictures has been hacked have been trickling in this morning, after a thread appeared on Reddit claiming all computers at the company were offline due to a hack.

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We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg packages.

Security researchers love the new shiny and whilst some like playing games too, I am not one of those. That being said, I have researched UNIX like OS for a number of years and I’m constantly thrilled by the new uses people find for it. This security evaluation was performed against the beta tree of SteamOS, a new, “open” games platform from the developers at Valve.

Time is one of the key parameters in a pentester’s work. It can either interfere with security analysis efforts by reminding you about the deadline and an eager client, or help you out when performing...

Microsoft is announcing the availability of an update for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 that revokes the digital signatures for nine private, third-party UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) modules that could be loaded during UEFI Secure Boot. When the update is applied, the affected UEFI modules will no longer be trusted and will no longer load on systems where UEFI Secure Boot is enabled.