Reflecting on 20 years of Patch Tuesday

This year is a landmark moment for Microsoft as we observe the 20th anniversary of Patch Tuesday updates, an initiative that has become a cornerstone of the IT world’s approach to cybersecurity. Originating from the Trustworthy Computing memo by Bill Gates in 2002, our unwavering commitment to...

Prominent & verified Twitter accounts hacked to run crypto scam

By Waqas Official Twitter account of Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Justin Sun are among the list of hacked accounts used in the crypto scam. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Prominent & verified Twitter accounts hacked to run crypto scam...

Facebook Fixes Vulnerability That Led to Account Takeover, Pays Researcher $16K

Facebook quickly resolved a vulnerability in its Business Manager tool late last month that could have let an attacker take over any Facebook page. Arun Sureshkumar, a security researcher in India, disclosed the vulnerability Aug. 29; a member of Facebook’s security team, Neal Poole, informed him...

Just One Device? No, Government wants Apple to Unlock 12 More iPhones

Until now, the FBI is asking for Apple's help in unlocking the iPhone belonging to one of the terrorists in the San Bernardino shootings that killed 14 and injured 24 in December. However, in addition to iPhone 5C belonged to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, the U.S. Justice Department is...

Hacker Who Stole Money From Bill Gates Arrested in Philippines

What if you get into the bank account of the World’s most richest person? Maybe it could be difficult for you as well as I. But not for this guy… ...Konstantin Simeonov Kavrakov, a Bulgarian hacker, who hacked into the ATM and stole thousands of dollars from the bank account of Microsoft mogul Bi...

Era Ends With Break Up of Trustworthy Computing Group at Microsoft

In a move that has surprised many in the security community, Microsoft has disbanded its Trustworthy Computing unit, the group that was responsible for the pioneering work that helped reverse the company’s security reputation and make Windows a much more secure and reliable computing platform. Th...

Syrian Electronic Army kept their promise; Microsoft's Office blog hacked

Yesterday Night Microsoft has faced another targeted attack by the Syrian Electronic Army SEA, a group supposed to be aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The SEA group is popular for its advance phishing attack and using the same technique they also hacked into the Official Twitter...

Ten Years After Gates's Memo, Effects Still Being Felt

Ten years. That’s a really long time. Think about what you were doing 10 years ago. Can you even remember? Maybe you were in college or high school, or cripes, even grade school. Or maybe you were working in security already, trying to figure out why your network kept getting overrun by viruses a...

Steve Jobs Scams Continue

There is another Steve Jobs related scam floating around the Internet. According to Trend Micro, this one comes in the form of an email sent from a fake charity organization cleverly titled, Steve Jobs Charity Fund. The email calls on its recipients to donate money to the fund, which claims, rath...

Steve Jobs Dead At 56

Outpourings of grief came from all corners of the technology world on Wednesday after Apple Computer announced that its co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs had died of cancer at the age of 56. Apple’s Web page paid tribute to Jobs on Wednesday, as tributes poured in from across the world. Of not...

The Past, Present and Future of Software Security

Perhaps no segment of the security industry has evolved more in the last decade than the discipline of software security. At the start of the 2000s, software security was a small, arcane field that often was confused with security software. But several things happened in the early part of the...

Lolz ! I've won three million Euros from Bill Gates !

Excuse me for typing breathlessly, faithful Naked Security reader, but I have some incredible news to share. I have just been informed that I have won three million Euros from none other than the Bill Gates Foundation! I had no idea that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which normally fight...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.billgatesisdead.com

Security researcher Fugitif, has submitted on 18/10/2007 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.billgatesisdead.com, which at the time of submission ranked 851113 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 28/10/2007. It is...