Facebook Had Years to Fix Flaw That Leaked 500M Users’ Data

Software makers can’t catch every bug every time, but Facebook had ample warning about the privacy problems with its “contact import” feature...

RevenueWire to pay $6.7 million to settle FTC charges

What can you do as a scammer when no legitimate payment provider wants to process your payments anymore? Or, what if you are growing sick and tired of these same payment providers reimbursing disgruntled customers who claim that your products didn't fix computers, like—you know—you said they woul...

How Assumptions May Be Making Us All Less Secure

In the space of a given year, untold thousands of vulnerabilities are found in operating systems, applications and plug-ins. In many cases, the affected vendors fix the flaws, either with a patch, a workaround or some other mitigation. But there’s also a huge population of security bugs that...

Major software makers fail security transparency test

From SDTimes David Worthington A majority of the industry’s leading software makers surveyed by SD Times lack transparency about the internal principles that they use for writing secure software. Analysts believe that those companies are either practicing security by obscurity, do not adequately...