Patches have already been released or are expected to see the light of day soon. Researchers have discovered a flaw in some Bluetooth implementations that could allow an attacker to intercept or tamper with data exchanged between two vulnerable devices. The cryptographic bug, tracked as CVE-2018-5383, has been identified by scientists at the Israel Institute of … More Bluetooth bug could expose devices to snoopers
Top-earning ethical hackers are rewarded with 2.7 times more money than the median salary of a full-time software engineer in their home country, a recent survey about the economics, geography and other aspects of bug hunting has revealed. In some countries, the financial allure of looking for security vulnerabilities is (even) more striking, according to … More How well can bug hunting pay?
Google has rewarded a Uruguayan student with $10,000 after he exposed a security flaw that could allow hackers to access sensitive data. Ezequiel Pereira discovered the vulnerability in Google’s App Engine server after changing the Host header in requests to the server using Burp. The high-school student explained in a blog post, “I was bored, so … More Google pays $10,000 for student’s bug
It’s the kind of news which will make some of the more mean-hearted of us chortle. Well, those of us who don’t own Ford motor cars at least. Apparently, Ford has identified a software bug on a number of its car models that means drivers may not be able to turn off the engine, even … More 433,000 Ford cars to be recalled because of software bug – would you have preferred an internet update?
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