Yahoo Pays Out $10,000 Bounty for Critical Mail Flaw

A researcher has earned $10,000 for finding a critical Yahoo! Mail vulnerability that could have been exploited simply by getting the targeted user to open a specially crafted email. Nearly one year ago, Jouko Pynnönen of Finland-based software company Klikki Oy discovered a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the web version of the Yahoo!…

Vulnerability Impacts Web-Exposed SAP Systems

The bug could be exploited by an external attacker to remotely obtain the list of SAP users from the system, Quenta Solutions’ Sergiu Popa, who SAP acknowledged to have reported the vulnerability, says. “This service is actually an example of application to create a time-off request. This service should not be activated in production systems,…