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Blizzard sued over security concerns, “deceptive upselling”
Blizzard, the developer of popular online games such as World of Warcraft and Diablo, has been hit with a class action lawsuit claiming that the company engages in …
YubiKey NEO authentication token released
Yubico announced the production launch of the YubiKey NEO, a new authentication token that features Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, asymmetric cryptography support …
Lock your Mac with QuickLock
QuickLock is a customizable way to lock your Mac. Unlike OSX’s hot corners, QuickLock works with a simple keyboard shortcut or menubar click, and never gets in the way …
Trust in the cloud or trust in the phone: What next for mobile payments?
Thales looks at the approaches for the successful mass adoption of mobile payments among issuers, card schemes, acquirers, merchants and consumers and asks whether the arrival …
Facebook flaw allowed access to accounts without authentication
A commenter on the Hacker News website has discovered by accident a pretty big security flaw that could allow anyone who knew what to search for to access over a million …
New cybercrime monetization methods
AVG’s new report investigates a number of malicious software developments including the newly launched 2.0 version of the Blackhole Exploit Toolkit, the evolution in …
Worst passwords of 2012
Just in time for Halloween comes something that might scare anyone who spends a lot of time online: SplashData’s annual list of the most common passwords used on the …
Entrust IdentityGuard delivers mobile smart credentials
To enable organizations to secure and leverage mobile devices in the wake of BYOD trends, Entrust extends its identity-based security platform with Entrust IdentityGuard …
Weak crypto allowed spoofing emails from Google, PayPal domains
Zach Harris, a Florida-based mathematician, discovered that Google and many other big Internet companies use weak cryptographic keys for certifying the emails sent from their …
CyanogenMod found logging Android unlock swipe gestures
CyanogenMod, one of the most popular modified Android firmware on the market, has been found containing code that logs the swipe gestures used by the users to unlock their …
Self-service password management in the cloud
Ilantus released Password Express, a self-service password management solution with security and enterprise integration. It can be deployed in the cloud or on premise to meet …
Biometric authentication service for web and mobile service providers
BioID announced BioID Connect, a cloud-based biometric authentication service that providers of web, cloud and mobile services can easily integrate to offer their users …
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