vulnerability
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 …
Windows 8 exploit combining several 0-days already up for sale
Less that a week after Microsoft released is long awaited Windows 8, with new and improved security features, French bug hunters VUPEN Security have announced that they have …
Most organizations report an increase in external attacks
Organizations need to fundamentally shift their approach to information security in order to meet the threats presented by existing and emerging technologies according to …
Gang steals over $1M by exploiting Citigroup e-payment flaw
Fourteen individuals were charged following a FBI-led investigation into the theft of over $1 million from Citibank using cash advance kiosks at casinos located in Southern …
Microsoft’s worldwide threat assessment
In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference Europe 2012, Tim Rains, the Director of Product Management at Microsoft’s TWC group, talks about volume 13 of …
F-Secure keeps your apps, plugins and OS up-to-date
F-Secure has introduced Software Updater which offers patch management as a business security feature. Over 80% of the top 10 malware detected by F-Secure Labs are targeted …
Surge in Android adware
Between the beginning of July and the end of September, FortiGuard Labs researchers reported a marked increase in Android adware, new evidence suggesting that Zitmo …
Twitter account hijacking exposes easy-to-exploit security flaw
The hijacking of the Twitter account that belongs to user Daniel Dennis Jones and his subsequent investigation into the matter has revealed a Twitter security weakness that …
Samsung fixes Galaxy S3 bug, researchers offer fix for other phones
Given the amount of information we all keep on our smartphones, it’s no wonder that the recently demonstrated Samsung Galaxy S3 remote data-wipe hack has ruffled quite a …
Researcher shows Samsung Galaxy S3 remote data-wipe hack
At the recently held ekoparty Security conference in Buenos Aires security researcher Ravi Borgaonkar has demonstrated a simple attack that could lead to a remote wiping of …
Critical Java flaw affects nearly one billion users
Researchers from Polish firm Security Explorations keep digging into Java and discovering flaws, the latest of which has been unearthed just before Oracle’s annual …
Researchers bypass NFC access control with smartphone
A security flaw in most Mifare NFC contactless cards can easily be misused by hackers to modify the contents of the cards and get free rides on at least two U.S. transit …