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Article | 21/01/2012 OpenSSL fixes DoS flaw introduced by critical DTLS patch

The OpenSSL Project has released new versions of the popular OpenSSL library in order to address a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability that was intr...

Article | 21/01/2012 Researchers expose flaws in popular industrial control systems

Researchers showcased unpatched security flaws in software used to control critical industrial systems by oil, gas, water and electrical distribution ...

Article | 20/01/2012 IE URI encoding behavior facilitates XSS attacks, researchers say

An inconsistency in how Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) encodes double quotes in URIs (uniform resource identifiers) can facilitate cross-site scri...

Article | 19/01/2012 Romanian NASA hacker gets a three-year suspended prison sentence

Robert Butyka, a 26-year old Romanian man accused of hacking into multiple NASA servers, received a three-year suspended prison sentence on Tuesday af...

Article | 19/01/2012 Secunia sets six-month deadline for vulnerability disclosures

Vulnerability research firm Secunia <a href="http://secunia.com/blog/292/">announced</a> that, effective from the beginning of the year, software vend...

Article | 18/01/2012 NSA releases a security-enhanced version of Android

The National Security Agency (NSA) has released SE Android, a security-enhanced version of Android, which provides and enforces stricter access-contro...

Article | 16/01/2012 Non-US customers kept in dark as Zappos cleans up after data breach

Online shoe and apparel shop Zappos.com is advising over 24 million customers to change their passwords following a data breach, but its website is cu...

Article | 14/01/2012 Facebook chat-based phishing attack impersonates Facebook Security

A new phishing attack that's spreading through Facebook chat modifies hijacked accounts in order to impersonate the social network's security team.

Article | 13/01/2012 Anonymous publishes Israeli SCADA log-in details

A member of the Anonymous hacktivist collective has published a list of Internet-facing Israeli SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) syste...

Article | 13/01/2012 Hash collision DoS vulnerability fixed in PHP 5.3.9

The PHP development team <a href="http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-01-11-1">has released</a> version 5.3.9 of the popular Web development pl...

Article | 12/01/2012 Lawsuit claims Symantec sells scareware-like products

Symantec has been accused in a lawsuit of California's unfair competition laws and fraudulent inducement by using scareware-like tactics to trick user...

Article | 12/01/2012 Carrier IQ detection tool converted to premium SMS Trojan

Android malware writers are taking advantage of the controversy surrounding Carrier IQ's smartphone tracking software in order to distribute a premium...

Article | 11/01/2012 Attack code published for serious ASP.NET DoS vulnerability

Exploit code for a recently patched denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability that affects Microsoft's ASP.NET Web development platform has been published...

Article | 3/12/2011 Yahoo Messenger flaw enables spamming through other people's status messages

An unpatched Yahoo Messenger vulnerability that allows attackers to change people's status messages and possibly perform other unauthorized actions ca...

Article | 1/12/2011 Anonymous' Robin Hood credit card fraud campaign could hurt more than just banks

Hacktivist groups Anonymous and TeaMp0isoN have joined together in a new campaign that involves compromising credit card details and using them to don...