Zero-Day Flaws Found, Patched In Siemens Switches
A security researcher has discovered a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities in a popular family of Siemens industrial control system switches that could allow an attacker to take over…
Internet of Things Poses New Security Risks
The hackers who got into your computer or smartphone are now taking aim at the Internet of Things.
Is XXE the new SQLi?
Many modern applications today use XML documents to transfer data between clients and servers. Due to its simplicity, XML is actually great for this and is therefore very often us…
Kali Linux introducing Emergency Self Destruct feature to Full Disk Encryption
In an Emergency situation, triggering the nuke password from boot screen will delete all the key slots and makes the data on the drive inaccessible. At this time, this feature …
23-year-old Stack overflow vulnerability discovered in X11 Server
At the 30th Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) in Germany, Ilja van Sprundel, a [security researcher gave the presentation(http://thehackernews.com/2014/01/23-year-old-stack-overf…