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Patched Code-Execution Bug Affects Most Android Users
A serious code-execution vulnerability in Android 4.3 and earlier was patched in KitKat, the latest version of the operating system. Researchers at IBM this week disclosed the nature of the vulnerability, which was privately disclosed to the Android Security Team in September and patched last...
[ZMap v1.0.3] The Internet Scanner
ZMap is an open-source network scanner that enables researchers to easily perform Internet-wide network studies. With a single machine and a well provisioned network uplink, ZMap is capable of performing a complete scan of the IPv4 address space in under 45 minutes, approaching the theoretical...
Hackers release Windows Phone 8 Malware - to be showcased at MalCon
It's be Just hours Windows Phone 8 has been released - and hackers have already dished out a malware prototype for the platform. Windows Phone 8 is the second generation of the Windows Phone mobile operating system. Windows Phone 8 Microsoft's latest in mobile OS technology - comes in as a direct...
Infographic: Veracode on Mobile Security and Protecting Your Device
Veracode have put out another snazzy infographic, this time to help illustrate the mobile computing boom of the last few years. To accompany the BYOD Bring Your Own Device policy that’s becoming commonplace in offices around the world, the web security firm uses two characters, Joe Worker and Joe...
Phony Temple Run Game For Android Plays On Android-iOS App Gap
Scammers are using the super-popular Temple Run game for iOS as bait to lure Android users into installing a phony version of the game on their phones. The incident comes amid reports of an explosion in traffic to mobile Web pages and application stores. Researchers at Trend Micro wrote on Monday...
Google's day of reckoning
Adoption of Google’s Android operating system is accelerating faster than a run-away train. That’s good news for Google, which always saw Android as a potential iPhone killer. But the events of the past year also make it clear that the company will be forced to deal head on with a dirty little...
Mozilla Releases Field Guide to Do Not Track
Mozilla has released a comprehensive guide to the use and implementation of the Do Not Track technology that’s included in its Firefox browser, in an effort to give developers and advertisers a better handle on how the technology works and how users are taking advantage of it. The Do Not Track...
California Approves Data Security Rules for Smart Meters
The state of California has approved new rules to protect the data stored on so-called “smart meters,” in an effort to protect customer consumption data as household utilities are wired and connected to an IP-enabled “smart grid.” The California Public Utilities Commission CPUC, which regulates...
McAfee study - India is fourth lowest in security adoption !
McAfee study - India is fourth lowest in security adoption ! McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS revealed the findings from a global report 'In the Dark, Crucial Industries Confront Cyber attacks' that reflects the cost and impact of cyber attacks on critical...
Top 7 Key Network Security Trends to Watch in 2011
Network security is on everyone's mind as 2010 comes to an end. Adam Powers, CTO of Atlanta-based Lancope, offers insights into expected trends for 2011. 1. IT Consumerization and Internal Threats The introduction of consumer devices into corporate networks is reshaping security strategies...
Fedora 11 : pidgin-sipe-1.9.1-1.fc11 (2010-4830)
Contributed File transfer functionality. File encryption is supported. Jakub Adam, Tomas Hrabik NTLMv2 and NTLMv2 Session Security support pier11 Implemented SIP Authentication Extensions protocol version 4 and 3 pier11 Adoption for commercial UNIX - HP/UX, Irix, Solaris - big endian fixes and...
Password Protocol OAuth Gets New Variant
The developers behind the OAuth protocol have developed a new variant called OAuth WRAP that is simpler and easier to implement. It’s a stop-gap solution that will enable broader OAuth adoption while OAuth 2.0, the next generation of the specification, is devised by a working group that is...
The Tainting of Twitter
No one in the tech security world is surprised that criminal exploitation of Twitter has commenced in earnest, as I’ve written in this story on page 1B of Monday’s edition of USA TODAY. Coding and social engineering techniques that spammers and malware purveyors have been refining and perfecting ...
Rich Mogull on the Conficker Response and DLP Adoption
Dennis Fisher talks with Rich Mogull, founder of Securosis, about the behind-the-scenes effort by the Honeynet Project and others to identify Conficker-infected PCs, as well as the hype surrounding the DLP market and the level of DLP adoption. Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on Podca...
Q&A: Dino Dai Zovi
Dino Dai Zovi has gained a reputation as one of the top Apple security researchers in the industry and is the author of a new book on Apple security, “The Mac Hacker’s Handbook.” In this interview, he talks about the state of Apple security, why the company hasn’t implemented better memory...
More on the workaround for the unpatched Oracle PLSQL Gateway flaw
According to Oracle, the workaround I posted, that prevents exploitation of a critical vulnerability that Oracle has so far failed to fix, breaks certain applications that sits atop their PLSQL Gateway. Though my workaround prevents exploitation of the critical flaw and thus protects vulnerable...
Linux news 15.11.00
Linux Kernel pre-patch 2.4.0 test11-pre5 Пятый пререлиз одинадцатого тестового ядра Linux за номером 2.4. Подробнее: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/linux/kernel/testing Вышел Kernel Traffic 93 Вышел 93 номер Kernel Traffic. Подробнее: http://linuxtoday.com/newsstory.php3?ltsn=2000-11-13-003-06-OS-KN Опро...
