Joomla! security bypass weakness and XSS vulnerability
A weakness and a vulnerability have been reported in Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and conduct cross-site …
Security threats to expand in 2012
Attackers are sidestepping automated security technology and are using social engineering and data mining to orchestrate attacks against prominent individuals and their …
Top five tips to avoid bad apps
While reported mobile malware incidents are still relatively low in number, McAfee Labs is seeing significant growth in the mobile malware threat landscape. Due to the fact …
Apple OS X sandbox hole allows bypassing of restrictions
Following Apple’s announcement that all applications submitted for inclusion in the App Store will have to have sandboxing implemented starting from March 1, 2012, …
Hacked Sky News Twitter account falsely reports on Murdoch arrest
Hacking Twitter feeds of popular mainstream media outlets is a perfect way of getting your message across to or create panic among a great number of people. It has also lately …
IBM unveils mobile security service
IBM unveiled its Hosted Mobile Device Security Management service that helps organizations protect against data loss and other risks caused by device theft, unauthorized …
Week in review: Cell phone money laundering, hardware Trojans and iOS flaw that allows downloading of malicious code
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Browser bloat and privacy concerns An increase in browser-based bloat and malware, …
Steam server attackers grabbed passwords, credit card data
As Bethesda Software was preparing to release Skyrim, the latest installment of its mega popular Elder Scrolls series, news that the forum of Steam, the online …
100% of enterprises reported cyber attacks
Attacks are becoming more difficult to defend against and are expensive to mitigate, with traditional safeguards falling short, according to F5 Networks. With both …
Scammers sending out bogus job offers
Cyber scammers do not hesitate using every scrap of information there is on the Internet in order to gain users’ trust and misuse it for their malicious purposes. Also, …
Block cipher encryption effectively hides banking Trojan
Brazilian malware peddlers have turned to encrypting banking Trojans with block ciphers, effectively bypassing most AV software. Kaspersky Lab’s Dmitry Bestuzhev says …
Entry VPN client for Windows
NCP engineering announced Secure Entry Client 9.3, its entry VPN client for Windows which supports mobile broadband in Windows 7 and Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2). …
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