Facebook Issues Security Updates for Mobile App

The Facebook security team is adding some new security features to the social network’s mobile applications, including upgrades to the login mechanism and account recovery options. The first addition is an update to Facebook’s existing login approval mechanism, which they are calling ‘code...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2488-1] iceweasel security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2488-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst June 7, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Apple Details iOS Security Features in New Guide

Apple has released a detailed security guide for its iOS operating system, an unprecedented move for a company known for not discussing the technical details of its products, let alone the security architecture. The document lays out the system architecture, data protection capabilities and netwo...

Google Fixes Three High-Priority Bugs in Chrome

Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser, fixing just a small handful of vulnerabilities in the process. All three of the bugs fixed in Chrome were rated high. The release by Google is a pretty small one by the company’s standards. Often, new versions of Chrome will include fixes f...

Data Encryption, 3.1/3GS

Apple’s decision to add data encryption with the iPhone 3GS was a nod to enterprise customers who wanted to offer iPhones to their employees, but were wary of the lack of security features compared with competing platforms like RIM’s Blackberry. Still, when they finally got around to it – with th...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: curl-7.21.0-8.fc14

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

AutoRun Infections Plummet Following Upgrade

A mid-February AutoRun update has had a dramatic effect on malware infection rates on the XP and Vista platforms, reducing infection rates using the AutoRun feature by as much as 68% across Windows platforms, according to Microsoft. Infections via the AutoRun feature in systems running Windows XP...

Google Chrome 'Sandbox' Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - Windows

Google Chrome is prone to a remote code execution RCE vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

French security firm VUPEN Say New Bugs Can Bypass Google Chrome Sandbox !

French security firm VUPEN Say New Bugs Can Bypass Google Chrome Sandbox ! Researchers at the French security firm VUPEN say that they have discovered several new vulnerabilities in Google Chrome that enable them to bypass the browser's sandbox, as well as ASLR and DEP and run arbitrary code on a...

Network access control system PacketFence 2.2 released !

PacketFence is a free and open source network access control NAC system. It can be used to effectively secure networks - from small to very large heterogeneous networks. PacketFence has been deployed in production environments where thousands of users are involved - on wired and wireless networks...

IE9 Adds Application Reputation Filter

The latest version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer promises to make it harder for malicious hackers to push dodgy Web applications onto end user systems, with a new Application Reputation filter. In their latest post, the Internet Explorer Weblog, the company details the ways in which IE 9 and i...

SAUSAGE Con Delves into IT Security's 'Human Problem'

‘Why is security so hard?’ That’s the question that a new conference focused on “useable security” will attempt to answer by bringing together experts on security, software development and human-computer interaction. DEK: ‘Why is security so hard?’ That’s the question that a new conference will...

Android Update Adds Protections For Mobile Clickjacking

Google released the latest version of its Android mobile operating system on Monday, adding security features that it says will make it tougher for mobile device users to be subjected to “clickjacking” attacks that trick them into clicking on hidden or disguised user interface elements. The compa...

2) Set Web browsers to "stun"

Cyber criminals know that Web browsers are like mothers: everybody’s got one. They also know that if you’re shopping online, you’re using your Web browser to do it. That’s why Web based attacks are one of the most popular kind avenue of compromise and online. The good news is that most modern Web...

Drive-By Downloads Still Running Wild

For some time now, the browser has been the most dangerous piece of software on the Web, and to hear researchers tell it, the climate it likely to get far worse before it gets any better. The attack landscape has shifted in a lot of important ways in the last few years, but none of the changes ha...

Old and Insecure, IE6 Still Popular in the Enterprise

Conventional wisdom has it that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser is on the way out: succumbing to the death of thousand cuts administered by plucky rivals like Mozilla’s Firefox, Google’s Chrome and even Opera. But data from Web security firm zScaler shows that the Old Blue Lady of the W...

Facebook Makes Device, Identity Security Updates

Amid a controversy about privacy, Facebook unveiled new security features designed to protect user accounts. Read the full article. eWEEK...

Foxit Launches 'Safe Mode' to Counter PDF Attacks

Foxit Corp has added new security features to its alternative PDF reader software to help thwart recent malware attacks that exploit the “/launch” feature. With Foxit PDF Reader Version 3.3, the company has added a Safe Mode that blocks external commands from being executed by the software. The...

Low: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: cman bug fix and enhancement update

Updated cman packages that fix bugs and add enhancements are now available. The Cluster Manager cman utility provides user-level services for managing a Linux cluster. Changes in this update: fencersa fails to login with new RSA II firmware. BZ549473 fencevirsh reports vm status incorrectly...

lexmark-config NSE Script

Retrieves configuration information from a Lexmark S300-S400 printer. The Lexmark S302 responds to the NTPRequest version probe with its configuration. The response decodes as mDNS, so the request was modified to resemble an mDNS request as close as possible. However, the port 9100/udp is listed ...