Detecting bugs in computer programs is an expensive task, and there is no way of measuring their efficacy without knowing exactly how many go unnoticed. To tackle this problem, researchers have ...

Hackers have begun exploiting the newly identified Shellshock computer bug, also widely known as the "Bash bug," using fast-moving worm viruses to scan for vulnerable systems and then infect them ...

Integer overflows are one of the most common bugs in computer programs -- not only causing programs to crash but, even worse, potentially offering points of attack for malicious hackers. Computer ...

Internet security experts are warning a new programming flaw known as the ‘Bash Bug’may pose a serious threat to computers and other devices You can save this article by registering for free ...

Be careful what you use to keep your computers bug-free, or it might end up bugging you. All high-end anti-virus programs perform the same basic functions: monitoring the hard drive for suspicious ...

Bug bounty program answers critics. news. Aug 9, 2007 5 mins. Cybercrime IBM Malware. Could hackers use TippingPoint signatures of paid-for flaws to reverse-engineer exploits?

This development comes in response to a critical remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-45489, that could have enabled threat actors to launch mass-scale attacks against users of the program.

One week after launching a security bug bounty program, the new file-storage and sharing service Mega claims to have fixed seven vulnerabilities, none of which met its highest severity classification.

Google will now pay security researchers to find and report bugs in the latest versions of Google-released open-source software (Google OSS). The company's newly announced Vulnerability Reward ...