Enhancing video streaming quality for ExoPlayer - Part 1: Quality of User Experience Metrics

The online video player landscape is fragmented with a wide variety of players across a mix of popular platforms. In the world of HTML5-video players in browsers, there are a number of open-source solutions e.g., hls.js, dash.js, Shaka Player, as well as commercial offerings which include Akamai'...

Is 'Sign in with Apple' Marketing Spin or Privacy Magic? Experts Weigh In

Apple’s “Sign in with Apple” feature promises to protect user privacy – and while many are looking at that claim as more of a marketing move than anything else, authentication experts say it has the potential to have an enormous impact on the data privacy ecosystem. The giant from Cupertino took...

How Credit Unions Can Optimize & Secure the Mobile App Experience

A small army of digital natives are about to become the largest generation globally. Gen Z, those born after 1996, will account for 32% of the world's population 7.7 billion in 2019 and outnumber millennials for the first time, according to World Economic Forum. This year, it will be critical for...

Introducing Our New Scanning Platform, CoalfireOne Scans

As you may be aware by now considering previous blog posts, ongoing walk-through webinars, and our press release, we released Coalfires brand new vulnerability scanning platform, CoalfireOne Scans, this morning. All of us here at the CoalfireOne Scanning Services Team are truly excited to see its...

Joomla Codextrous B2jcontact 2.1.17 Shell Upload

Exploit Title : Joomla Codextrous ComB2jcontact Components 2.1.17 Shell Upload Author Discovered By : KingSkrupellos from Cyberizm Digital Security Army Date : 04/01/2019 Vendor Homepage : codextrous.com/joomla-components/b2j-contact.html + extensions.joomla.org/extension/b2j-contact/ Software...

Rockstar Games: Race condition vulnerability on "This Rocks" button.

In this report, the researcher brought to our attention a misbehavior in the "This Rocks" button that we use on the Social Club site. Using curl and a proxy tool such as Burp Suite, an attacker could invoke the "This Rocks" API call multiple times rapidly, and the system would accept multiple...

The vulnerability of the Microsoft Windows operating system, related to errors in memory object handling, allows a perpetrator to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the Connected User Experience and Telemetry Service services in the Microsoft Windows operating system is related to improper handling of objects in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a local attacker to cause service failures through a specially created...

Image Management 101: The Web Developer's Guide

This article originally appeared on DevOps.com Online experiences have in many ways supplanted in-person experiences. Today, no one would hesitate to buy a luxury watch online instead of from a jewelry brick-and-mortar store. But as these online experiences become the norm, user expectations for ...

Google Updates reCAPTCHA: No More Boxes to Check

Google this week has rolled out its latest version of the reCAPTCHA mechanism, which is meant to weed out spam and abuse by robots on websites. It marks a dramatic departure from previous reCAPTCHA efforts by eliminating the need for visitors to take any extra steps in order to log onto a website...

Picture perfect: How to drive the best shopping experiences with the right images

This article originally appeared on Internet Retailer. There are several key variables that retail marketing and web teams should consider when delivering high-quality images for engaging online shoppers. The quality, format and size of an image must all be considered to ensure that vivid images...

DarkSpiritz - A Penetration Testing Framework For UNIX Systems

What is DarkSpiritz? Created by the SecTel Team it was a project of one of the owners to update and clean-up an older pentesting framework he had created to something updated and modern. DarkSpiritz is a re-vamp of the very popular framework known as "Roxysploit". You may be familiar with this...

Standing behind “MSRC Listens”

Last week at BlueHat’s “MSRC Listens” session, I took the stage with Mechele Gruhn, manager of the Vulnerability Response PM team, to explain how MSRC is changing our communication, workflows, and tooling to deliver an improved user experience for our partners in the security research community. ...

Standing behind “MSRC Listens”

Last week at BlueHat’s “MSRC Listens” session, I took the stage with Mechele Gruhn, manager of the Vulnerability Response PM team, to explain how MSRC is changing our communication, workflows, and tooling to deliver an improved user experience for our partners in the security research community. ...

Safari users: Where did your extensions go?

Safari 12 has brought with it some changes to how OSX handles browser extensions. At WWDC in June, Apple announced that Safari would block legacy extensions installed from outside the Extensions Gallery, which itself would now be deprecated. As a replacement, Safari will now rely on "app...

Mobile matters: How to ready your apps for the holiday shopping spike

While more consumers now shop on smartphones, retailers have a lot of work to do to make mobile shopping easy. Developers must account for the wide variety of mobile hardware and software, take into account how consumers use their phones in stores and ensure easy checkout. The cheer and good...

Tor Browser 8.0 - Everything you Need to Safely Browse the Internet

Tor Browser 8.0, is the first stable release based on Firefox 60 ESR, is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from distribution directory. This release is all about users first. Tor Browser 8.0 comes with a series of user experience improvements that address a set of long-term...

How to Clear the Cache on Your Mac

Have you ever wondered why your Mac is running slow? Does it freeze when performing even just the simplest of tasks? Does it take a while to launch and switch programs? Everybody has gone through this excruciating pain at least once. Even though the Mac is known to be a high-performance machine, ...

Setting up session settings in Storefront 3.12

Configure the settings to control the end user experience and specific time out durations...

Why would customers choose me?

Competitive Differentiation Guide for Financial Services in Digital India We are a young nation 1.3 billion strong, of which just about 500 million are active internet users. Not a small number by any means. We have world's second largest pool of internet users and our online population is larger...

Facebook Security Exec Calls for Tightened Data Privacy

Facebook’s outgoing chief information security officer Alex Stamos has urged the social media company to rethink its approach to data privacy. The executive, whose exit has been widely reported on for months, wrote an internal note to staff that called for changes in how Facebook approaches data...