Mozilla has blocked Firefox from running Flash by default on the latest versions of its browser and is calling on Adobe to dump the product altogether. Is this finally the end of the performance-sucking plugin?
دسته: security
Samsung’s security failures leave 600 million Android users vulnerable to simple keyboard hack
A critical new vulnerability has been discovered on Samsung Galaxy S5 and S6 devices, but the state of the Android ecosystem means there’s nothing end-users can do about it (except avoid unsecured WiFi, anyway).
Mozilla disables new Firefox features to address critical security flaw
Mozilla has updated Firefox to patch a critical vulnerability, but was forced to disable one of the browser’s new security-enhancing features as a result.
Popular mobile security app uses worthless encryption method
New data shows that one of the more popular Android security apps, NQ Vault, uses a fundamentally flawed method of encrypting information and protecting user security. Google’s hands-off policy on these topics does far more harm than good.
Security review finds no critical flaws in Truecrypt 7.1a
The second, larger audit of TrueCrypt 7.1a has concluded, with no sign of the software-breaking flaw that its creators warned was there. What’s this mean for the future of the code and the program’s many users?