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Article | 4/12/2012 New 'Dockster' malware targets Apple computers
A new piece of malicious software targeted at Apple users has been found on a website dedicated to the Dalai Lama, but one security vendor is labeling...
Article | 3/12/2012 Instagram vulnerability on iPhone allows for account takeover
A security researcher published on Friday another attack on Facebook's Instagram photo-sharing service that could allow a hacker to seize control of a...
Article | 23/11/2012 Symantec spots odd malware designed to corrupt databases
Symantec had spotted another odd piece of malware that appears to be targeting Iran and is designed to meddle with SQL databases.
Article | 22/11/2012 HTTP Strict Transport Security becomes Internet standard
A Web security policy mechanism that promises to make HTTPS-enabled websites more resilient to various types of attacks has been approved and released...
Article | 21/11/2012 South Carolina faults weak IRS standard in massive data breach
South Carolina's governor faulted an outdated Internal Revenue Service standard as a contributing factor to a massive data breach that exposed Social ...
Article | 20/11/2012 Facebook to roll out HTTPS by default to all users
Facebook started encrypting the connections of its North American users by default last week as part of a plan to roll out always-on HTTPS (Hypertext ...
Article | 13/11/2012 OpenDNS introduces VPN, content filtering for mobile devices
OpenDNS, a company that specializes in secure Domain Name System lookups, has released a suite of security services built around its core DNS product ...
Article | 5/11/2012 Smart meters not so clever about privacy, researchers find
Researchers at the University of South Carolina have discovered that some types of electricity meter are broadcasting unencrypted information that, wi...
Article | 2/11/2012 Vupen claims 'remote code execution' on Windows 8
Vupen, a security company in the business of selling zero-day vulnerabilities, said Friday that it has found a way to bypass security mechanisms on Wi...
Article | 2/11/2012 Firefox to force secure connections for selected domains
Mozilla introduced a pre-loaded list of domains for Firefox that only can be connected to securely in order to help protect the privacy and security o...
Article | 30/10/2012 Irked by cyberspying, Georgia outs Russia-based hacker -- with photos
In one of the photos, the dark-haired, bearded hacker is peering into his computer's screen, perhaps puzzled at what's happening. Minutes later, he cu...
Article | 25/10/2012 SAP aims to be the Apple of enterprise mobility
A home improvement retail chain can use an app running on an iPad to help design a customer's home, check inventory for the products, give a cost esti...
Article | 23/10/2012 CyanogenMod developers remove code that logged device screen-lock patterns
The development team of CyanogenMod, a popular community-built Android firmware, discovered and removed a line of code that posed potential security r...
Article | 19/10/2012 Many Android apps from Google Play security-challenged
Hundreds of free apps in the Android market vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks as a result of unsound use of secure socket layer (SSL)
Article | 3/12/2011 Committee approves cybersharing bill despite privacy concerns
The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee has approved a recently introduced bill that would allow greater cyberthreat information shar...