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Image Library Exploit Leaking Yahoo! Mail Images Now Retired

23

May

2017

A recent vulnerability found in the open-source ImageMagick library used by Yahoo! to process images could have allowed attackers to view image email attachments. After being reported by security researcher Chris Evans, Yahoo! retired the library and rewarded Evans a $14,000 bounty.

Category Email security Vulnerabilities Written by Hotforsecurity 0 Comments

Why Edward Snowden loves open source

10

May

2017

Infamous government hacker Edward Snowden believes open source is a fundamentally better way to use technology compared to proprietary technology that he believes disempowers users.
Snowden was interviewed at the open source cloud computing project OpenStack Summit in Boston via video from a non-descript location and spoke about his personal use of open source technology.

Category Cyber warfare Hacker Written by Cio 0 Comments

IDG Contributor Network: Nextcloud is the open source answer to mass surveillance

16

Dec

2016

The Nextcloud team has released version 11 of the fully open source file sync and storage platform. This release boasts a plethora of security features. Frank Karlitschek, co-founder and managing director of Nextcloud, told me in an interview that the “privacy of a self-hosted solution depends on its security, and staying in control of data […]

Category Privacy protection Written by Cio 0 Comments

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