Bug Hunters have Windows 8 Zeroday Exploit

French security researcher firm and famous bug hunters at Vupen announced that it had already developed an exploit that could take over a Window 8 machine running Internet Explorer 10, in spite of the many significant security upgrades Microsoft built into the latest version of its operating...

Facebook Letting Users Designate 'Guardian Angel' Friends To Restore Locked Accounts

Social networking giant Facebook said on Thursday that it is testing a feature that will allow users to designate certain friends as ‘guardian angels’ entrusted with helping the user to recover a locked or hijacked account. The company, which has already experimented with forms of “social...

[USN-38-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-38-1 December 14, 2004 linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities CAN-2004-0814, CAN-2004-1016, CAN-2004-1056, CAN-2004-1058, CAN-2004-1068, CAN-2004-1069, CAN-2004-1137, CAN-2004-1151...