New Portuguese Law Shields Ethical Hackers from Prosecution

Portugal updates its cybercrime law Decree Law 125/2025 to grant ethical hackers a 'safe harbour' from prosecution. Learn the strict rules researchers must follow, including immediate disclosure to the CNCS, and how other nations are following this trend...

Friday Squid Blogging: Newfoundland Giant Squid Sculpture

In 1878, a 55-foot-long giant squid washed up on the shores of Glovers Harbour, Newfoundland. Its the largest giant squid ever recorded--although scientists now think that the size was an exaggeration or the result of postmortem stretching--and theres a full-sized statue of it near the beach wher...

pooleharbourcanoeclub.uk Improper Access Control vulnerability OBB-2418851

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2014-0355)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

torontoharbour.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1226814

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

How we developed our simple Harbour decompiler

https://github.com/KasperskyLab/hbdec Every once in a while we get a request that leaves us scratching our heads. With these types of requests, existing tools are usually not enough and we have to create our own custom tooling to solve the "problem". One such request dropped onto our desk at the...

France Orders Facebook To Stop Tracking Non-Users or Face Fines

8th February 2016 would be considered as a cursed day in the history of Facebook. You might have known that just yesterday India bans Facebook's Free Basic Internet in the country. Now, Zuckerberg had got another bombshell in the form of a French Order from the European Data Protection Authority,...

MGASA-2014-0355 Updated harbour package fixes security vulnerability

An integer overflow in liblzo before 2.07 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly code execution in applications using performing LZO decompression on a compressed payload from the attacker CVE-2014-4607. The harbour is built with a bundled copy of minilzo, which is a part of...