OpenSSL Security Policy Made Public for First Time

OpenSSL has been having a rough go of it for some time thanks to Heartbleed and a handful of other critical vulnerabilities. Not only did those bugs put commerce and communication at risk, but they opened many people’s eyes as to how omnipresent the open source crypto implementation is. In an...

Private Messaging App Vendor Wickr Offers Hackers $100,000 for Bugs

Bug bounty programs, for the most part, have been the domain of large software vendors and Web companies such as Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, PayPal and Facebook. But some smaller companies are now getting involved, with the latest one to announce a bounty being Wickr, the maker of secure messagin...

RIM BlackBerry PlayBook OS 1.0.8.6067 Local File Access Vulnerability

The web browser which comes as part of the RIM BlackBerry PlayBook OS can be tricked into disclosing the contents of local files through the planting of a malicious HTML file through the standard download mechanism. It should be noted that in order to exploit this issue, user interaction is...