Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of May 2, 2022

All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us ...
Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill

Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of ...

Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of March 21, 2022

All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us ...
Safari Web Share API Stealing Local Files

Unfixed Safari Bug Lets Attacker Steal Files

Safari bug affects users sharing content Attackers can exploit the issue to steal files Details on the vulnerability are now public, Apple has no fix planned Security researcher Pawel Wylecial has found ...
Let’s Encrypt Says It Will Revoke 3M Certificates Due to Software Bug

Let’s Encrypt Says It Will Revoke 3M Certificates Due to Software Bug

Non-profit certificate authority (CA) Let’s Encrypt announced it will revoke more than three million digital certificates due to a software bug. On March 3, Let’s Encrypt revealed its plan to revoke 3,048,289 ...
Bug Affected 52.5 Million Users in Connection with a Google+ API

Bug Affected 52.5 Million Users in Connection with a Google+ API

A bug connected to a Google+ API potentially exposed the profile information belonging to 52.5 million users of Google’s social network. According to David Thacker, VP of Product Management for G Suite, ...
Facebook Bug Temporarily Unblocked Users from 800K Accounts

Facebook Bug Temporarily Unblocked Users from 800K Accounts

Facebook announced it is notifying more than 800,000 affected users after a bug temporarily reset certain account privacy settings. The social media giant said the bug allowed users who had been previously ...

The Heartbleed Bug, gone in a heartbeat.

There is a hole in the heart of Internet security which has the potential to expose countless encrypted transactions.  It’s been named the Heartbleed Bug.  The bug was accidentally incorporated into OpenSSL ...