Is Google Wallet Secure? What You Need to Know
Google announced its long-awaited mobile payments platform, Google Wallet, in New York City on Thursday. The company claims it will revolutionize commerce. But with stories about massive data breaches...
View ArticleAdobe Says ‘We Didn’t Hide Vulnerabilities’ In Latest Patch
Adobe took pains to defuse a dispute between the company and famed Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy, posting more information about the holes fixed with a patch for its Flash Player software....
View ArticleInsecure Applications: We Are The 84 Percent!
You only have to glance at the headlines to know that the state of computer application security is bad. But a new report from Veracode makes clear how bad: just 16 percent of almost 10,000...
View ArticleQuality Coding Takes A Break For The Holidays. But Why?
by Fergal Glynn, Director of Marketing, VeracodeI recently read a blog post by CloudFlare and Shawn Graham that asked a fantastic (and timely) question: "Do Hackers Take The Holidays Off?" CloudFlare...
View ArticleTough Love Triumphs: SCADA Vendor Koyo Fixes Basecamp Bugs
Industrial control system vendor Koyo moved to fix vulnerabilities in its ECOM brand programmable logic controllers (PLCs) after researchers, in January, revealed that the devices were vulnerable to...
View ArticleDARPA Contest to Pay $2M for Automated Network Defense, Patching
The bug bounty continues to be turned on its ear. Microsoft began the wave of paying premium money for mitigation technologies via its Blue Hat prizes, and now DARPA has gone all-in to the tune of $2...
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