About a year ago, security researcher Sam Curry bought his mother a Subaru, on the condition that, at some point in the near future, she let him hack it. It took Curry until last November, when he was ...
WordPress powers about 43% of all websites worldwide. This makes it an indispensable platform for organizations of all sizes. Unfortunately, that popularity also makes WordPress a prime target for ...
When security researchers in the past found ways to hijack vehicles' internet-connected systems, their proof-of-concept demonstrations tended to show, thankfully, that hacking cars is hard. Exploits ...
Every day has the potential to be a bad day for a CSO. However, the second Tuesday of each month – Patch Tuesday – is almost ...
The healthcare industry is one of the sectors with the fewest organization website vulnerabilities, putting it at lower risk of an attack on website security, according to an analysis by WhiteHat ...
Exploited CVEs increased by a fifth in 2024, according to analysis by VulnCheck, with increased transparency and improved monitoring playing a role. Still, proactive measures are vital. Almost one in ...
Digital security is of paramount importance these days, especially now that even young children use devices like smartphones, ...
Today is Microsoft's September 2024 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 79 flaws, including three actively exploited and one publicly disclosed zero-days. This Patch Tuesday fixed seven ...
There are two new speculative execution attacks that impact recent Apple chips, according to data shared today by Georgia Tech students that discovered the vulnerabilities. Named SLAP and FLOP, the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Google has confirmed that all users of the Chrome web browser ...
The Chrome web browser has the most significant market share of them all, with 3.45 billion users, so it’s not surprising that many eyes are on the code looking for security flaws. Google has just ...
A new committee at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is laying the groundwork for a new classification system to describe Web security vulnerabilities.