Summary of June 8 outage
We experienced a global outage due to an undiscovered software bug that surfaced on June 8 when it was triggered by a valid …
Tag: Security
Pwned Passwords, Open Source in the .NET Foundation and Working with the FBI
I’ve got 2 massive things to announce today that have been a long time in the works and by pure coincidence, have aligned …
New Spectre attack once again sends Intel and AMD scrambling for a fix
Since 2018, an almost endless series of attacks broadly known as Spectre has kept Intel and AMD scrambling to develop defenses to mitigate …
WhiteSource’s annual report about the state of opensource security vulnerabilities for 2021
It’s that time of year again: WhiteSource’s annual State of Open Source Security Vulnerabilities for 2021 is here. Once again, when 2020 came to a …
A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome
A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome: those browsers will begin sorting their users into groups based …
Update on git.php.net incident
When the first malicious commit was made under Rasmus’ name, my initialreaction was to revert the change and revoke commit access for Rasmus’account, …
Official PHP Git server targeted in attempt to bury malware in code base
On Sunday, PHP programming language developer and maintainer Nikita Popov said that two malicious commits were added to the php-src repository in both his name …
533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
A user in a low level hacking forum on Saturday published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook …
Google accused of tracking users in ‘Incognito’ mode, lawsuit pending
San Francisco – In a significant ruling, a judge in the US has directed Google to face a class-action lawsuit seeking $5 billion, …
New Old Bugs in the Linux Kernel
Have you ever been casually perusing the source code of the Linux kernel and thought to yourself “Wait a minute, that can’t be …