Hackers Can Use Radio-waves to Control Your Smartphone From 16 Feet Away

What if your phone starts making calls, sending text messages and browsing Internet itself without even asking you? No imaginations, because hackers can make this possible using your phone's personal assistant Siri or Google Now. Security researchers have discovered a new hack that could allow...

Fake Oracle Patches Making the Rounds

Support engineers with Oracle are warning users not to download any patches that don’t come directly from the company after learning that attackers are circulating fake fixes for Oracle error messages. Antonella Giovannetti, a member of the company’s SOA Proactive response team, wrote in a blogpo...

Adobe bitten by XSS bug it invented

Hundreds of thousand websites host vulnerable Adobe Flash files which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct convincing phishing and XSS attacks. In most cases, cookie hijacking is possible. Unsuspecting users can be redirected from trustworthy SSL and non-SSL sites to malware, adware an...