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Article | 12/09/2012 EMV protocol flaw allows 'pre-play' attacks against chip-enabled payment cards, researchers say

Many automated teller machines (ATMs) and point-of-sale (POS) terminals fail to properly generate random numbers that are required by the EMV protocol...

Article | 11/09/2012 Leaked Apple UDIDs were stolen from digital publishing firm

The unique identifiers of 1 million Apple iOS devices that hackers leaked last week were stolen from the servers of a Florida-based digital publishing...

Article | 10/09/2012 Glastopf Web application honeypot gets SQL injection emulation capability

The Honeynet Project, a non-profit organization that develops open-source security research tools, has created a component for the Glastopf Web applic...

Article | 7/09/2012 Firefox 15.0.1 fixes bug that exposed websites visited in private browsing mode

Mozilla released Firefox 15.0.1 on Thursday in order to fix a bug that potentially exposed the websites visited by users while in "Private Browsing" m...

Article | 7/09/2012 Tool allows Mac OS X hackers with root access to easily extract keychain data

A new tool allows Mac OS X attackers with root OS access to easily steal the keychain password data of logged in users and reinforces the dangers of g...

Article | 6/09/2012 Security researchers to present new 'CRIME' attack against SSL/TLS

Two security researchers claim to have developed a new attack that can decrypt session cookies from HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) connect...

Article | 5/09/2012 Qubes OS 1.0 isolates programs inside virtual machines for increased security

The first stable version of Qubes OS, an open source desktop operating system designed to provide a greater level of security by isolating programs in...

Article | 4/09/2012 German federal police to develop their own computer surveillance software

The Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany, also known as the BKA, is looking to hire software engineers who can develop remote computer surveillan...

Article | 4/09/2012 Hackers leak 1 million Apple UDIDs allegedly stolen from FBI laptop

A group of hackers released a file containing unique identification data for over 1 million Apple iOS devices and claim that the information is part o...

Article | 3/09/2012 Rogue Microsoft Services Agreement email notifications lead to latest Java exploit

Hackers are distributing rogue email notifications about changes in Microsoft's Services Agreement to trick people into visiting malicious pages that ...

Article | 31/08/2012 Researchers find critical vulnerability in Java 7 patch hours after release

Security researchers from Poland-based security firm Security Explorations claim to have discovered a vulnerability in the Java 7 security update rele...

Article | 30/08/2012 Mysterious Wiper malware possibly connected to Stuxnet and Duqu, researchers say

Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered information suggesting a possible link between the mysterious malware that attacked Iranian oil...

Article | 29/08/2012 Oracle knew about currently exploited Java vulnerabilities for months, researcher says

Oracle knew since April about the existence of the two unpatched Java 7 vulnerabilities that are currently being exploited in malware attacks, accordi...

Article | 29/08/2012 US Air Force seeks to enhance its cyberwarfare capabilities

The U.S. Air Force is openly soliciting technologies that would improve its capability of launching cyberattacks and gathering intelligence during cyb...

Article | 28/08/2012 Unpatched Java vulnerability exploited in Blackhole-based attacks

Attacks targeting an unpatched vulnerability in the latest versions of Java 7 have become widespread after an exploit for the new flaw was integrated ...