Microsoft Introduces New Bug Bounty Program
Microsoft introduces a new bug bounty program on Wednesday; offering upto $500 to $15000 for valid submissions. The program begins from 20th Oct 2015 and ends on Jan 20th next year. Vulnerability program is for CoreCLR and ASP.NET 5 betas. The company urged all hackers and security researchers to report vulnerabilities in its Core CLR and […]
Thales acquires Silicon Valley firm.
Thales Group a leading French based multinational has acquired a silicon valley firm ‘Vormetric’ this week.Thales paid $400 for this acquisition, Vormetric is a leading provider of data protection solutions in physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures. In an announcement CEO Patrice Caine said; “The acquisition of Vormetric is a great opportunity to accelerate the growth of […]
iOS 9.1 fixes major Vulnerabilities and kills jailbreak
Apple releases its new iOS 9.1 which not only fixes 49 Vulnerabilities but also kills Jailbreak. The update was released on Wednesday; on website the security team provided the details of flaws fixed in new update. 2 major flaws were credited to Chinese developers team ” Pengu Team “. Pengu Team introduced the jail break […]
One Million SSL Certificates Websites are Vulnerable
Around 1 Million websites are under security risks because they use SHA-1 hashing algorithm; which the security researchers has labeled as insecure. Large number of sites including banking, government and corporate sector websites are SHA-1 certifies which the researchers found most vulnerable. Paul Mutton a Netcraft researcher said; “SHA-1 based certificates are about to be […]