Apple improves App Store security
Following the recent hacking of its App Store, Apple instituted a new security measure that should prevent hijackers of accounts from purchasing anything from the store. The …
ATMs hacked and spitting up money at Black Hat
Delivering on his promise, security researcher Barnaby Jack has managed to make two unpatched ATMs from two major vendors spit out cash during his demonstration at the Black …
Trojan masquerades as iPhone jailbreaking software
An email campaigned targeting iPhone users who might want to jailbreak their device has been detected by BitDefender. Only a couple of days after U.S. federal regulators …
Authentication management platform for any and every authentication factor
” border=”0″ align=”left” vspace=”5″ hspace=”5″>Hitachi ID Systems has released Password Manager 7.0, an authentication …
Google has two times more malware than Bing, Yahoo! and Twitter combined
Barracuda released its Barracuda Labs 2010 Midyear Security Report, revealing data from two key areas: search engine malware and Twitter use and crime rate. Searching for …
New assurance mark of software application security
Veracode unveiled the VERAFIED High Assurance mark of software application security for the CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors. This industry “seal of …
Sourcefire’s open source framework for deep threat inspection
Sourcefire announced Razorback, an open source framework designed to deliver deep inspection capabilities for combating today’s most complex threats. Developed to help …
100 million Facebook pages published on torrent site
A compilation of Facebook pages (and personal information) of 100 million users of the popular social network is available for download on a torrent site, courtesy of hacker …
Cell-phone call interception demonstration at Defcon might not be a sure thing
Ethical hacker Chris Paget is scheduled to give a talk on cellphone insecurity at Defcon this Saturday, during which he means to demonstrate the possibility of interception of …
Critical ToolTalk Database Server Parser vulnerability discovered
Check Point announced that its IPS Research team has recently discovered a critical vulnerability in a function of the ToolTalk Database Server Parser that can enable a remote …
Fake AV masquerading as Firefox/Flash update
The well known “fake scanning page” that pops up a warning about your computer being infected has been switched with a fake Firefox “Just Updated” page …
Critical vulnerability in Apple QuickTime
A highly critical vulnerability (as dubbed by security researchers from Secunia) affects the latest version of Apple QuickTime Player for Windows. “The vulnerability is …