FILE – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is flanked by physicist Dr. Edward Teller, left, and Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, director of Strategic Defense Initiative, as he arrives to address a conference marking the first five years of his “Star Wars” missile defense program in Washington, D.C., March 14, 1988. MADRID — Scientists and NASA…
A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the widely used Transmission BitTorrent app that could allow hackers to remotely execute malicious code on BitTorrent users’ computers and take control of them. The vulnerability has been uncovered by Google’s Project Zero vulnerability reporting team, and one of its researchers Tavis Ormandy has also posted a proof-of-concept attack—just 40…