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Adobe is working on a fix for Flash, Arduino 101 is announced, and Nintendo...
Adobe has put out a security advisory for its Flash Player. According to the company, there is a critical vulnerability in the plug-in affecting Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.207 and earlier for Linux,...
View ArticleCigital’s BSIMM6 finds software security lagging in industry
With 29x more data than its first model, Cigital has released its most recent findings of its Building Security in Maturity Model (BSIMM), declaring that software security is lagging. Cigital is an...
View ArticleW3C to standardize APIs for Web payments
Security breaches are splashed all over the news almost every day, and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) wants to do something about it—at least when it comes to online payments. The organization has...
View ArticleSourceClear raises funding to help improve software security
The software development industry is growing by leaps and bounds every day, but security still seems to be a problem that hasn’t been conquered. Many businesses have had the displeasure of dealing with...
View ArticleMozilla previews Firefox OS 2.5, Gear VR ready for preorder, and Google...
Mozilla has announced the Firefox OS 2.5 developer preview along with an experimental Android app. The app lets developers experience Firefox OS as an alternate home screen on their Android device,...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s HoloLens award recipients, Instagram client pulled from iOS...
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced the HoloLens Academic Research Grant Program in order to encourage academic institutions to create holographic computing experiences. Today the company has...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s AI advancements, tech tattoos, and Dell addresses security...
Microsoft researchers say they are making advancements in computer vision, deep learning, and understanding images. The company, along with colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a...
View ArticleKickstarter project defends data from the inside out
Software and security have been getting better, but computer software is still at risk of being compromised by physical access. A new class of security devices is on its way to protect data and control...
View ArticleOracle settles FTC claim that it deceived consumers about Java updates
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is penalizing Oracle for leaving millions of computers vulnerable to hacking. As a result, Oracle will be required to give consumers an easy solution to uninstall...
View ArticleResearchers team up to develop software that eliminates bugs
A team of researchers is looking to put an end to the industry’s longstanding software security problem. As part of a five-year, US$10 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), computer...
View ArticlePrinceton tries to find out if your IoT devices are safe
Security is one of the biggest hurdles to jump over in the Internet of Things movement, and researchers want to know if recently implemented devices made it over. Researchers from Princeton’s Center...
View ArticleAlphabet passes Apple, researchers create auto-bug-repair system, and...
Shares of Alphabet, Google’s holding company, opened nearly three percent higher today, pushing it past Apple. This makes Alphabet the most valuable public company, according to a report by CNBC....
View ArticleCheck Point and IBM Security focus on threat prevention
Check Point Software Technologies and IBM Security are announcing a new collaborative initiative designed to defend against cybercrime. The companies are forming the Threat Prevention Alliance....
View ArticleAdobe releases Flash security update
For anyone out there still using Adobe’s Flash Player, the company has just announced a significant security update. According to an Adobe security bulletin, the patch addresses “critical...
View ArticleTop tech companies team up on e-mail security
1&1 Mail & Media, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft and Yahoo want to ensure e-mails are secure. The companies have sent the Internet Engineering Task Force a proposal for a new system that provides...
View ArticleRethinkDB 2.3, Microsoft improving UI development features, and Karamba...
RethinkDB has announced version 2.3 of its open-source database for the real-time Web. The latest release comes with new security features, performance enhancements, new ReQL features, and a beta...
View ArticleDocker aims to protect container content with Docker Security Scanning
Docker has announced that Project Nautilus, the company’s ongoing effort to safeguard container content, is now generally available as Docker Security Scanning. Developers largely want to deliver the...
View ArticleSD Times GitHub Project of the Week: Capture the Flag
In an effort to help promote cybersecurity, Facebook is open-sourcing its Capture the Flag (CTF) platform on GitHub. CTF is the company’s hacking competition platform that aims to teach about...
View ArticleCore Infrastructure Initiative announces investment in security tool OWASP ZAP
The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) is continuing its commitment to help fund, support and improve open-source projects with a new investment. The organization has announced it...
View ArticleTech companies worry FBI may get access to private data
The battle over how far governments can go to look at the private information of their citizens has started on a new front. The EFF, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and other civil society organizations,...
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