An ethical hacker has demonstrated a novel supply-chain attack that breached the systems of more than 35 technology players, including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Tesla and Uber, by exploiting public, open-source developer tools. The attack, devised by security researcher Alex Birsan, injects malicious code into common tools for installing dependencies in developer projects which […]
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A critical flaw in the PlayStation Now cloud application could have let attackers inject malicious code on Windows-operating devices. The vulnerability was reported on May 13 by bug hunter Parsia Hakimian, and fixed on June 25 by the online gaming giant. The bug, residing in an insecure AGL application, affected PlayStation Now versions 11.0.2 and […]
Instagram kept copies of deleted pictures and private direct messages on its servers even after someone removed them from their account. The Facebook-owned service acknowledged the slipup and awarded a security researcher $6,000 for finding the bug. Researcher Saugat Pokharel discovered the vulnerability when he downloaded his data last year from the photo-sharing app, according […]
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