Weekly Cyber Security News 20/11/2015

For well over a decade our focus at ionCube has been on PHP security but recently with the release of ionCube24 we have been looking into different kinds of vulnerabilities. This post has a few of the interesting issues we have found this week.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news.

• 5 Vulnerability Warnings (InfoRiskToday)

• A 23-year-old Windows 3.1 system failure crashed Paris airport (ZDNet)

• Android’s accessibility service grants god-mode p0wn power (The Register)

• Chrome zero-day flaw places millions of smartphone users at risk (ZDNet)

• Dyre Banking Trojan Now Targets Windows 10, Microsoft Edge

• Libpng Library Updated to Patch Vulnerabilities (SecurityWeek)

• Linux ransomware rising? Linux.Encoder.1 now infects thousands of websites (ZDNet)

• MetroPCS patches hole that opened 10 million user creds to plunder (The Register)

• More POS malware, just in time for Christmas (The Register)

• PNG pongs: critical bug patched in ubiquitous libpng (The Register)

• Windows’ disk encryption can be easily bypassed in ‘seconds’ (ZDNet)