Android Wear bug blocks paid apps from being installed
US media reported 7 July US time that Android Wear has a bug when it comes to downloading paid apps.
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Move over Heartbleed, more OpenSSL bugs found
More bugs have been found in OpenSSL, the same security technology that was affected by the Heartbleed bug. The OpenSSL Foundation published an advisory on June 5 on several bugs, including a classic “man-in-the-middle” (MITM) attack in which a third party can eavesdrop on or modify data traffic between two points.
New zero day vulnerability affects all version of Internet Explorer
A new zero day exploit has been discovered for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) web browser. The vulnerability was discovered by security vendor FireEye over the weekend, and Microsoft has since issued an emergency security bulletin. The problem is understood to affect Internet Explorer 6 through 11, and could allow attackers to gain complete control of a system.
Highly critical OpenSSL bug went unnoticed for more than two years
A critical software flaw went unnoticed in one of the world’s widely used encryption library known as OpenSSL for more than two years. Known as Heartbleed, the bug was apparently inadvertently introduced in December 2011 and was only recently discovered by researchers from Google and security group Condenomicon.
Google is sorry for outage, explains what happened
Users could not make use of logged-in services like Gmail, Google+, Calendar and Documents (officially) and Hangouts and Play (in other media) for periods ranging from 25 minutes to almost an hour, with the longer times affecting roughly 10% of users, Google said.