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PT-2012-2508
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Small Business IP phones with SPA 500 series firmware versions 7.4.9 and earlier Description The issue allows remote attackers to make unauthorized telephone calls by sending an XML document, as no authentication is required for Push XML...
Slideshow: How to Avoid Getting Hacked While Traveling
VIEW SLIDESHOW How to Avoid Getting Hacked While Traveling Researcher Justin Morehouse has logged more than 100,000 miles to eight countries in the last year. His message: business travelers are at greater risk of being hacked than ever before, especially when it comes to smart phones and tablets...
Protect Yourself Abroad
Researcher Justin Morehouse has logged more than 100,000 miles to eight countries in the last year. His message: business travelers are at greater risk of being hacked than ever before, especially when it comes to smart phones and tablets. Now the security expert has distilled his research and...
Symantec Experiment: Half Of Those Who Find Smartphones Don't Return Them
Good Samaritans are few and far between when it comes to lost cell phones, according to the conclusions of a social experiment conducted by security firm Symantec. Smart phones are unlikely to be returned by those who find them, but very likely to be perused for sensitive data including photos,...
Video: College Professor, Students Crack Zeus Trojan Mystery
A segment from last night’s Rock Center, Brian Williams’ TV news magazine, gives the inside scoop on how a college professor and his students helped law enforcement crack one of the largest and most profitable banking Trojan operations around. Reporter Richard Engel sat down with Gary Warner, a...
RSA: Chaos In the Security World, And the Situation Is Perfect
Right on cue this week, the anarchic hacking collective Anonymous stepped up and grabbed the story line away from the lions of the IT security industry. With the annual RSA Conference set to begin, the whistle blowing site Wikileaks released the first of some five million e-mail messages stolen...
Researchers to Detail WebKit Zero-Day on Android Phones at RSA Conference
Security researchers will be demonstrating an end-to-end phishing attack on Google Android phones that utilizes a zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s WebKit technology at the upcoming RSA Conference. The presentation, slated for Feb. 29, will be a coming-out party of sorts for new security firm...
How Hackers can Track your Mobile phone with a cheap setup ?
How Hackers can Track your Mobile phone with a cheap setup ? Cellular phones have become a ubiquitous means of communications with over 5 billion users worldwide in2010, of which 80% are GSM subscribers. Due to theiruse of the wireless medium and their mobile nature, thosephones listen to broadca...
Cryptographers : Satellite phones vulnerable to eavesdropping
Cryptographers : Satellite phones vulnerable to eavesdropping Researchers at a German university claim to have cracked the algorithm that secures satellite phone transmissions. They have broken the encryption of the two main standards used to protect calls from satellite phones, giving them the...
Saudi Arabia's King Saud University Database Hacked
Saudi Arabia's King Saud University Database Hacked The Official Website of King Saud University KSU Got hacked by some unknown Hacker.is a public university located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Database of 812 Users hacked from and dumped on Internet by Hacker on a file sharing site including Mail...
Go Analog
Last – but certainly not least – you could just eschew modern technology and digital devices of all kinds. Landline phones, snail mail and an abacus might be slow, but they also don’t leave a permanent digital trail and, these days, are likely to be overlooked. Images via nate, jronaldlee and...
Losing The Cops In A Foot Chase? There's An App For That
Law enforcement officials in Maryland have issued a warning about the increasing use of smart phones and Web based services to listen in on law enforcement radio transmissions. Gang members, officials warn, are using the smart phone apps to get a jump on enforcement efforts and, in at least one...
Your Android Phone is Spying On You, Use custom ROM To Protect your Privacy
Your Android Phone is Spying On You, Use custom ROM To Protect your Privacy In this digital age, privacy is more important than ever. Just because you "don't have anything to hide," does not mean that you shouldn't value your privacy or fight for it when companies do things like this, especially...
Bizztrust : The Most Secure Android Phone
Bizztrust : The Most Secure Android Phone With companies these days justifiably concerned about the security of the mobile devices provided to their workforce, many workers find themselves carrying around two mobile phones - one for personal use and another for business. Sure, mobile phones aren'...
HTC Android Phones Leak Private User Data
There is a serious security issue with a variety of HTC Android phones that enables any app with Internet permissions to access a huge amount of private data on the device, including call logs, email addresses, SMS messages, last known GPS location and more. The problem was introduced via an upda...
QR Codes Found Sending Users to Site Containing Android Trojan
QR codes have been showing up everywhere in the last few months, from magazine ads to the sides of buses to, oddly, billboards. And now they’ve shown up on the list of ways that attackers are delivering malware to victims, with the emergence of a new Android-based Trojan that is hiding on malicio...
Firm Claims To Break Blackberry Device Password
Research in Motion’s phones are considered the premiere maker of enterprise-grade mobile devices. But now a Russian firm says that a forensics tool it developed can reliably crack strong passwords used to secure the company’s BlackBerry phones. Elcomsoft, a computer forensics software maker, said...
Trojan Makes Child-Porn Accusation, Locks Computer, Requests $17
A new ransomware scam locks down its victims’ computers, attempting to convince them that child pornography has been found therein, and informs users that their machine will be unlocked only after paying a $17 500 ruble fine, according to a BitDefender analysis reported by MalwareCity. The trojan...
AnDOSid the DOS tool for Android
AnDOSid the DOS tool for Android A new product released by SCOTT HERBERT for Android mobile phones,Its AnDOSid - the DOS tool for Android Phones. The rise of groups like Anonymous and LuzSec, as well as constant India / Pakistan cyberwar has raised the issue of cyber-security higher in the minds...
