Vulnerability Management

IBM said a permissions error in its SPSS Statistics scripts could allow local users to gain elevated privileges, the company reported.

After Adobe issues patch for Flash, Microsoft issued its own patch to address Flash vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge.

The Tor Project will team with HackerOne to launch a bug bounty program in 2016, Mike Perry, lead developer of the Tor Browser and Tor Performance developer, said during the State of the Onion address.

Power outages on Christmas Eve in Western Ukraine have been blamed on Russian special services hackers.

Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy discovered a vulnerability, since fixed, in AVG Web TuneUp, a Chrome extension that forcibly installs when users install the AVG antivirus software.

Adobe's January Patch Tuesday release came early with the company today issuing patches for a critical zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Joomla! has released the latest version, 3.4.7, of its free content management system software to address two reported security vulnerabilities.

Troublemakers with enough time on their hands, and strength in their fingers, can crash Whatsapp by piling in 4,000 or so smiley emojis into a message and sending it along.