Diehard text editor users everywhere breathed a sigh of relief this week as the open source community fixed a bug in one of the most venerable *nix programs: Vim.

A high-severity flaw could give attackers full control of Cisco routers or switches.

By Uzair Amir

The cop thought he was talking to an underage girl but it was a grown-up man using Snapchat’s gender filter. A 20-year old student from California’s San Francisco Bay Area used the much-criticized gender-swapping filter of Snapchat to catch a 40-year old police officer. According to Ethan, who studies in a California college, the cop […]

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One month after Microsoft disclosed the flaw, nearly 1 million systems remain unpatched, and Internet scans looking for vulnerable systems have begun increasing.

Fix released in ‘record time’

When Local File Inclusion attacks are counted, nearly nine in 10 attacks are related to input validation failures, Akamai report shows.

Why is SandboxEscaper releasing vulnerabilities in such an irresponsible way? It matters not - Microsoft must patch what’s in front of it whatever the backstory.

HKCERT issues warning over spate of sextortion emails

By Waqas

It is unclear why Telegram was targeted or who was behind the DDoS attack. The popular privacy-focused instant messaging application service Telegram has suffered a massive DDoS attack in which its service in the United States and several other countries has been disrupted, the company has revealed. The DDoS attack began targeting Telegram’s servers around […]

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215 accounts use the same family of special URL shorteners to track the effectiveness of the operation.