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Article | 20/02/2013 Many companies likely affected by compromise of popular iOS developer forum
The administrators of a popular iOS developer Web forum called iPhoneDevSDK confirmed Wednesday that it had been compromised by hackers who used it to...
Article | 14/02/2013 Adobe confirms zero-day exploit bypasses Adobe Reader sandbox
A recently found exploit that bypasses the sandbox anti-exploitation protection in Adobe Reader 10 and 11 is highly sophisticated and is probably part...
Article | 13/02/2013 Emergency Alert System devices vulnerable to hacker attacks, researchers say
Devices used by many radio and TV stations to broadcast emergency messages as part of the U.S. Emergency Alert System (EAS) contain critical vulnerabi...
Article | 13/02/2013 Zero-day PDF exploit affects Adobe Reader 11 and earlier versions, researchers say
Researchers from security firm FireEye claim that attackers are actively using a remote code execution exploit that works against the latest versions ...
Article | 12/02/2013 McAfee enhances its business security management and SIEM products
McAfee is enhancing its business security platform by adding near real-time querying capabilities to its ePolicy Orchestrator software and by integrat...
Article | 11/02/2013 Bit9 says attack likely targeted a narrow set of companies
Security vendor Bit9 promised to release limited details of a hack caused by a failure of the company to install the same security software on its own...
Article | 4/02/2013 US Department of Energy hack disclosed employee information
The U.S. Department of Energy said Monday that personal information about several hundred employees and contractors was stolen in a mid-January hack, ...
Article | 1/02/2013 Broadcom UPnP implementation also contains critical vulnerability, researchers say
Security researchers from Croatia-based security firm DefenseCode claim to have found a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the UPnP (Univ...
Article | 1/02/2013 Wall Street Journal says it too was hit by Chinese hackers
The Wall Street Journal said Thursday it had been targeted by hackers trying to monitor the newspaper's coverage of China, less than a day after a sim...
Article | 31/01/2013 New York Times computer network breached by Chinese hackers, paper says
Hackers from China breached the computer network of The New York Times and stole passwords that allowed them to gain access to computers and email acc...
Article | 28/01/2013 Browser-hijacking malware talks to attackers using SPF email validation protocol
A new Trojan program that displays rogue advertisements during browsing sessions uses a DNS-based email validation protocol called the Sender Policy F...
Article | 26/01/2013 Anonymous hits US government site, threatens release of secrets
Hackers working under the name of the Anonymous hacktivist collective hit a US government website on Saturday, replacing its home page with a 1340 wor...
Article | 24/01/2013 Backdoor accounts found in networking and security appliances from Barracuda Networks
A variety of networking and security appliances from Barracuda Networks contain backdoor accounts that could allow attackers to log in remotely over S...
Article | 24/01/2013 Web server hackers install rogue Apache modules and SSH backdoors, researchers say
A group of hackers that are infecting Web servers with rogue Apache modules are also backdooring their Secure Shell (SSH) services in order to steal l...
Article | 17/01/2013 Microsoft vows to improve security suite after failed evaluation
Microsoft vowed on Wednesday to improve two of its security products after both failed to pass an evaluation by a Germany security software testing or...