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Article | 26/06/2012 Researchers devise practical key recovery attack against smart cards, security tokens

A team of cryptographic researchers claim to have developed an attack method that can be used to recover secret keys in an acceptable time frame from ...

Article | 26/06/2012 Cybercriminals increasingly use online banking fraud automation techniques

Cybercriminals attempted to steal at least US$75 million from high-balance business and consumer bank accounts by using sophisticated fraud automation...

Article | 25/06/2012 Malware infection forces printers to print garbled data, researchers say

Printers connected to Windows computers infected with new variants of a malware program called Trojan.Milicenso, will automatically print out pages fu...

Article | 22/06/2012 PayPal to pay security researchers for reported vulnerabilities

Payment services provider PayPal will reward security researchers who discover vulnerabilities in its website with money, if they report their finding...

Article | 21/06/2012 Cisco patches vulnerabilities in VPN client, security appliances

Networking equipment vendor Cisco Systems released multiple security updates on Wednesday to address vulnerabilities in its AnyConnect Secure Mobility...

Article | 21/06/2012 Researcher: Face.com iOS flaw could have allowed Facebook, Twitter account hijacking

Facial recognition start-up Face.com patched a vulnerability in its KLINK iOS app that could have allowed attackers to hijack the Facebook and Twitter...

Article | 20/06/2012 Unpatched Microsoft XML Core Services flaw increasingly targeted in attacks, researchers say

An unpatched vulnerability in the Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) is being exploited in attacks launched from compromised websites to infect compu...

Article | 20/06/2012 Report: Flame part of US-Israeli cyberattack campaign against Iran

The highly sophisticated Flame malware was jointly developed by the U.S. and Israeli governments in preparation for a cybersabotage campaign to disrup...

Article | 19/06/2012 Researchers set new cryptanalysis world record for pairing-based cryptography

Researchers from Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Kyushu University have set a...

Article | 19/06/2012 Fake Android antivirus app likely linked to Zeus banking Trojan, researchers say

A recently discovered fake Android security application is most likely a mobile component of the Zeus banking malware, security researchers from antiv...

Article | 18/06/2012 Attack code published for two actively exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft software

Attack code for two actively exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft software, one of which has not yet been patched, was integrated into the open-sour...

Article | 18/06/2012 Governments should invest more in catching cybercriminals, researchers say

Improving the ability of law enforcement agencies to catch cybercriminals should be a priority when governments decide how their cybersecurity budgets...

Article | 15/06/2012 VMware patches arbitrary code execution flaw in desktop, server virtualization products

Virtualization software vendor VMware has released security patches for its Workstation, Player, Fusion, ESXi and ESX products in order to address two...

Article | 14/06/2012 64-bit operating systems, virtualization software vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks on Intel CPUs

Some 64-bit operating systems and virtualization software programs are vulnerable to local privilege escalation attacks when running on Intel processo...

Article | 13/06/2012 Exploit available for root-access vulnerability in F5 Networks products

An exploit for a recently patched vulnerability that allows potential attackers to obtain administrative access on network appliances from hardware ve...