New Keystore features keep your slice of Android Pie a little safer

Posted by Brian Claire Young and Shawn Willden, Android Security; and Frank Salim, Google Pay[Cross-posted from the Android Developers Blog] New Android Pie Keystore Features The Android Keystore provides application developers with a set of cryptographic tools that are designed to secure their users’ data. Keystore moves the cryptographic primitives available in software libraries out … Devamını oku

Creating an opportunistic IPSec mesh between EC2 instances

IPSec (IP Security) is a protocol for in-transit data protection between hosts. Configuration of site-to-site IPSec between multiple hosts can be an error-prone and intensive task. If you need to protect N EC2 instances, then you need a full mesh of N*(N-1)IPSec tunnels. You must manually propagate every IP change to all instances, configure credentials … Devamını oku

Adobe’s Year-End Update Patches 87 Flaws in Acrobat Software

Adobe is closing out this year with its December Patch Tuesday update to address a massive number of security vulnerabilities for just its two PDF apps—more than double the number of what Microsoft patched this month for its several products. Adobe today released patches for 87 vulnerabilities affecting its Acrobat and Reader software products for … Devamını oku

Microsoft Issues Patch for Windows Zero-Day Flaw Under Active Attack

Microsoft today, on its year-end December Patch Tuesday, released security updates to patch a total 39 vulnerabilities its Windows operating systems and applications—10 of which are rated as critical and other important in severity. One of the security vulnerabilities patched by the tech giant this month is listed as publicly known at the time of … Devamını oku

phpMyAdmin Releases Critical Software Update — Patch Your Sites Now!

Developers of phpMyAdmin, one of the most popular and widely used MySQL database management systems, today released an updated version 4.8.4 of its software to patch several important vulnerabilities that could eventually allow remote attackers to take control of the affected web servers. The phpMyAdmin project Sunday gave an early heads-up about the latest security … Devamını oku