Yahoo Plans to Disclose All New Bugs It Finds Within 90 Days

Yahoo officials say that the company will disclose any new vulnerabilities that the company’s security team finds within 90 days of discovery. The new policy is the same one used by Google’s Project Zero, a team of researchers that looks for vulnerabilities in a variety of commonly used software...

Podcast: Black Hat News Wrap, Day Two

Dennis Fisher, Mike Mimoso and Brian Donohue discuss the news from day two of Black Hat, including a CryptoLocker working group, a medical device security and privacy roundtable and overview of the various security and privacy improvements at Yahoo over the last year. Image via Black Hat USA 2014...

Flickr Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability Patched

Yahoo-owned Flickr, one of the biggest online photo management and sharing website in the world was recently impacted by a web application vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to modify users’ profile image. Flickr is one of the most popular photo sharing website with more than 87 million...