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Adobe Patches 67 Vulnerabilities in Flash, Acrobat, and Reader

Adobe’s latest security update has swatted a total of 67 bugs, some of them critical, in Adobe Flash, Acrobat, and Reader. On Tuesday, the software provider released a security advisory detailing a huge amount of vulnerabilities which have now been fixed in the latest patch round. Adobe Flash Player, Photoshop CC, Connect, Acrobat and Reader, […]

Apple macOS High Sierra Bug Exposes Passwords of Encrypted APFS Volumes As Hint

A severe programming error has been discovered in Apple’s latest macOS High Sierra 10.13 that exposes passwords of encrypted Apple File System (APFS) volumes in plain text. Reported by Matheus Mariano, a Brazilian software developer, the vulnerability affects encrypted volumes using APFS wherein the password hint section is showing the actual password in the plain […]

10-year-old Kid Hacks Instagram, Gets $10,000 Reward from Facebook

A 10-year-old kid from Finland found a bug allowing access to Instagram servers and delete any text posted by Instagram users. If a security researcher wants to take part in Facebook’s bug bounty program there is an age requirement but the 10-year-old Finish kid Jani ( the last name not revealed) hacked Instagram and reported […]

Your WhatsApp Web and Mobile Apps are Having Bugs

Last week WhatsApp, the most popular messaging app, came to web as WhatsApp Web, but it needs lots of improvements. An independent 17-year old security researcher Indrajeet Bhuyan found two security holes in WhatsApp Web bug and it exposes user’s privacy. First bug is called WhatsApp photo privacy bug and the second one is WhatsApp Web photo sync […]