New Android API Lets Developers Push Updates Within their Apps

You might have read somewhere online today that Google is granting Android app developers powers to forcefully install app updates…but it is not true. Instead, the tech giant is providing a new feature that will help users to have up-to-date Android apps all the time and yes, it's optional. Along...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: python-requests-2.20.0-1.fc28

Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely verbos e and cumbersome. Python=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BDs built-in urllib2 module prov ides most of the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the API is thoroughly broken. This librar y is designed to make HTTP requests easy...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: python-requests-2.20.0-1.fc29

Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely verbos e and cumbersome. Python=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BDs built-in urllib2 module prov ides most of the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the API is thoroughly broken. This librar y is designed to make HTTP requests easy...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: python26-2.6.9-17.fc29

Python 2.6 package for developers. This package exists to allow developers to test their code against an older version of Python. This is not a full Python stack and if you wish to run your applications with Python 2.6, see other distributions that support it, such as CentOS or RHEL 6...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: python35-3.5.6-3.fc29

Python 3.5 package for developers. This package exists to allow developers to test their code against an older version of Python. This is not a full Python stack and if you wish to run your applications with Python 3.5, see other distributions that support it, such as CentOS or RHEL with Software...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: python35-3.5.6-3.fc28

Python 3.5 package for developers. This package exists to allow developers to test their code against an older version of Python. This is not a full Python stack and if you wish to run your applications with Python 3.5, see other distributions that support it, such as CentOS or RHEL with Software...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: python26-2.6.9-17.fc27

Python 2.6 package for developers. This package exists to allow developers to test their code against an older version of Python. This is not a full Python stack and if you wish to run your applications with Python 2.6, see other distributions that support it, such as CentOS or RHEL 6...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: python35-3.5.6-3.fc27

Python 3.5 package for developers. This package exists to allow developers to test their code against an older version of Python. This is not a full Python stack and if you wish to run your applications with Python 3.5, see other distributions that support it, such as CentOS or RHEL with Software...

Information Disclosure

Apache Spark is vulnerable to information disclosure. The convenience script build/mvn runs a zinc server which will accept connections from external hosts by default. This vulnerability affects developers when building Spark from source code. A specially crafted request to the zinc server will...

New Imperva Java SDK: Greasing The Wheels for Active Directory Coding Projects

According to StackOverflow’s 2018 Developer Survey, Java remains one of the world’s most popular coding languages, universally liked for its versatility and ease of adoption. Even so, working under the pressures developers often do, a bit of help always goes a long way. To that end, we’ve put...

Authorities search & seize properties of GTA V’s “Infamous” cheat developers

By Carolina Cheat developers are constantly under the radar of Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games. Both companies have previously taken legal action against cheat developers for protecting their games including the very popular Grand Theft Auto V GTA V. Last month, they launched an operation...

From Now On, Only Default Android Apps Can Access Call Log and SMS Data

A few hours ago the company announced its "non-shocking" plans to shut down Google+ social media network following a "shocking" data breach incident. Now to prevent abuse and potential leakage of sensitive data to third-party app developers, Google has made several significant changes giving user...

Google+ is Shutting Down After a Vulnerability Exposed 500,000 Users' Data

Google is going to shut down its social media network Google+ after the company suffered a massive data breach that exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of Google Plus users to third-party developers. According to the tech giant, a security vulnerability in one of Google+'s People AP...

Google+ is Shutting Down After a Vulnerability Exposed 500,000 Users' Data

Google is going to shut down its social media network Google+ after the company suffered a massive data breach that exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of Google Plus users to third-party developers. According to the tech giant, a security vulnerability in one of Google+'s People AP...

Pumping the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence

While the push-pull between defenders and attackers using artificial intelligence continues, there’s another security dimension to machine intelligence that should be of concern. Just as the rise of IoT devices has created an inadvertent new threat surface ripe for introducing vulnerabilities, so...

Facebook Finds 'No Evidence' Hackers Accessed Connected Third-Party Apps

When Facebook last weekend disclosed a massive data breach—that compromised access tokens for more than 50 million accounts—many feared that the stolen tokens could have been used to access other third-party services, including Instagram and Tinder, through Facebook login. Good news is that...

FreeBSD : bitcoin -- Denial of Service and Possible Mining Inflation (40a844bf-c430-11e8-96dc-000743165db0)

Bitcoin Core reports : CVE-2018-17144, a fix for which was released on September 18th in Bitcoin Core versions 0.16.3 and 0.17.0rc4, includes both a Denial of Service component and a critical inflation vulnerability. It was originally reported to several developers working on Bitcoin Core, as wel...

Twitter API Flaw Exposed Users Messages to Wrong Developers For Over a Year

The security and privacy issues with APIs and third-party app developers are something that's not just Facebook is dealing with. A bug in Twitter's API inadvertently exposed some users' direct messages DMs and protected tweets to unauthorized third-party app developers who weren't supposed to get...

Twitter API Flaw Exposed Users Messages to Wrong Developers For Over a Year

The security and privacy issues with APIs and third-party app developers are something that's not just Facebook is dealing with. A bug in Twitter's API inadvertently exposed some users' direct messages DMs and protected tweets to unauthorized third-party app developers who weren't supposed to get...

Twitter Flaw Exposed Direct Messages To External Developers

Twitter on Friday said that a recently-patched bug in its platform enabled software developers to read users’ private direct messages or protected tweets. The bug ran from May 2017 until it was discovered on September 10 – after which Twitter patched the glitch to prevent data from being...