Raising your kids to have cyber security awareness

In our Last Month Magazine Issue, Lee Ives from London, England and Admin of Security-FAQs - talk about internet security for your children and what to watch out for and how to protect them and yourself. You can Download Here Special The Hacker News Magazine January 2012 Edition. Have a look the...

Google Begins Security Review Process for Android Apps

After a couple of years of seeing headlines announcing a steady stream of pieces of malware and trojaned apps appearing the Android Market, Google finally has taken steps to find and remove malicious apps from the market automatically. The company has unveiled a service called Bouncer that scans...

HITB2011KUL - Hacking Androids for Profit

Document Title: =============== HITB2011KUL - Hacking Androids for Profit References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/412.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QizOQjsjLq4 Release Date: ============= 2012-02-02 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Fake iPhone Camera+ App Allowed in App Store

A fake version of the popular Camera+ iPhone application was offered on Apple’s App Store over the weekend, according to a post by Glyn Evans on the iPhoneography blog on Saturday, just the latest example of suspicious and malicious applications to slip through Apple’s shadowy application vetting...

JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u29 (Deployment)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 6 Update 27 and earlier, when running on Windows, allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown...

OpenJDK: InputStream skip() information leak (Networking/IO, 7000600)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 7, 6 Update 27 and earlier, 5.0 Update 31 and earlier, and 1.4.233 and earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality via unknown...

OpenJDK: missing checkSetFactory calls in HttpsURLConnection (JSSE, 7096936)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 7, 6 Update 27 and earlier, 5.0 Update 31 and earlier, and 1.4.233 and earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality and integrity,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: plib-1.8.5-5.fc15

This is a set of OpenSource LGPL libraries that will permit programmers to write games and other realtime interactive applications that are 100% portable across a wide range of hardware and operating systems. Here is what you need - it's all free and available with LGPL'ed source code on the web...

Your Android really needs Antivirus Security ?

Why shouldn't you protect your Android phone? Why to use an Antivirus for your Android? So that users can protect their devices from trojans, viruses, spyware, and other types of malware. Most people carry a lot of sensitive data on their phones. Recently an SMS Trojan horse posing as a media...

OpenJDK: missing checkSetFactory calls in HttpsURLConnection (JSSE, 7096936)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 7, 6 Update 27 and earlier, 5.0 Update 31 and earlier, and 1.4.233 and earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality and integrity,...

OpenJDK: mutable static AWTKeyStroke.ctor (AWT, 7019773)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 7, 6 Update 27 and earlier, 5.0 Update 31 and earlier, and 1.4.233 and earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality, integrity, and...

9 Top Patch Management Practices for Businesses Security

9 Top Patch Management Practices for Businesses Security I've spent most of the past decade in information security, with a pretty big focus on incident response. It never ceases to amaze me how many security incidents pronounced hacks customers suffer as a result of unpatched systems. Patch...

ESA-2011-036: RSA, The Security Division of EMC, announces the release of a Security Fix for RSA(r) Adaptive Authentication (On-Premise)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ESA-2011-036: RSA, The Security Division of EMC, announces the release of a Security Fix for RSA® Adaptive Authentication On-Premise Advisories Updated December 6, 2011 Summary: An issue with RSA® Adaptive Authentication On-Premise was discovered whic...

Apple Crash Reports Help Hackers to create a jailbreak exploit

Apple Crash Reports Help Hackers to create a jailbreak exploit iPhone "jailbreaking" has been a hot topic since Apple released its smartphone more than two years ago. According to the Latest report posted by BBC that Thousands of iPhone owners have joined forces with a team of hackers to help the...

Mobile Madness

Admit it. It would scarcely break your heart if the legions of slack-jawed smartphone Facebook and FourSquare gawkers were forced to confront their own digital mortality – however briefly – with a few scary exploits made just for them. In 2011, the untethered among us saw several mobile security...

Design/Logic Flaw

EMC RSA Adaptive Authentication On-Premise AAOP 6.0.2.1 SP1 Patch 2, SP1 Patch 3, SP2, SP2 Patch 1, and SP3 does not properly perform forensic evaluation upon receipt of device tokens from mobile apps, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended application restrictions via a mobile...

More Apps Pulled From Android Market Over Hidden SMS Functionality

There has been another round of malicious apps discovered in the official Android Market, with this wave containing hidden functionality to send SMS messages to premium-rate numbers. The apps, which Google has pulled from the Market already, are counterfeit versions of popular games, including...

McAfee drafted Five Steps to Avoiding bad apps on Pc & Mobile

McAfee drafted Five Steps to Avoiding bad apps on Pc & Mobile Malicious applications are one of the most serious threats to smartphone users today. Not only can a dangerous app infect your phone and steal your personal information, it can even spy on you. Read our five easy tips for avoiding bad...

SMS Trojans Spreading to the Rest of the World

SMS Trojans that ride along on supposedly benign mobile apps and then send out messages to high-priced numbers have been a problem in some Asian and Eastern European countries for several years now, most notably in Russia and China. But now the attackers have realized that there’s a whole big wor...

JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u29 (Swing)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 6 Update 27 and earlier, 5.0 Update 31 and earlier, and 1.4.233 and earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality, integrity, and...