by spinman on December 29, 2011
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Text messages have largely replaced seasonal (and non) greeting cards, and there are mobile apps out there that let you send prewritten witty/sweet messages to friends and family. But there are also some that pretend to do that, and F-Secure researchers have recently spotted a Trojan targeting Chinese Android users that masquerades as just that [...]
by spinman on December 29, 2011
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A vulnerability in ASP.NET that could allow an attacker to consume all of the resources on a vulnerable server with a single specially designed HTTP request. The vulnerability affects a wide range of Web platforms are vulnerable to this attack, and Microsoft officials said they’re releasing the patch now because they’re expecting exploit code to [...]
by spinman on December 29, 2011
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Passwords for document files are commonly used to prevent unauthorized access to the files by encrypting them with passwords. However, attackers are misusing the password feature to encrypt files, most likely to make it difficult for security products to detect them as malware,” say the researchers. “It also makes reverse-engineering the files difficult because they [...]
by spinman on December 29, 2011
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Just a day after security researcher Stefan Viehbock released details of a vulnerability in the WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) standard that enables attackers to recover the router PIN, a security firm has published an open-source tool capable of exploiting the vulnerability. The tool, known as Reaver, has the ability to find the WPS PIN on [...]
by spinman on November 21, 2011
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Bit9’s new research on “The Most Vulnerable Smartphones of 2011” lists the devices that pose the most serious security and privacy risk to consumers and corporations. In the Bit9 research report, Android phones overwhelmingly topped the list, accounting for the “dirty dozen” most vulnerable devices.
by spinman on August 30, 2011
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2011 has been labeled by IT security experts as “The Year of the Hack”. Bit9′s endpoint survey of 765 IT executives revealed that Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks, like the one that was used to breach RSA, are of most concern to IT and security professionals. Read More…
by spinman on April 29, 2011
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US-CERT is aware of reports that some users on the Xbox 360 video game system are receiving potential phishing attempts through an in-game messaging service. In-game message phishing is not a Microsoft issue and has nothing to do with Xbox LIVE. Games are products of third party developers that are playable on Xbox LIVE and [...]
by spinman on April 29, 2011
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Apple’s claim that the geolocation tracking of its customers via a stealth file maintained in devices running the iOS operating system are, well, “patently” false. The stealth iOS file records geolocation information derived from triangulating the location of a device using the signals from the closest cell phone transmission towers and Wi-Fi access points. The [...]
by spinman on April 27, 2011
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Last week it was brought to everyone’s attention that a hidden Apple IOS version 4 feature is secretly tracking and saving geolocation data on iphone and iPads. This data is also stored on any computer you are using iTunes to sync the device(s). A video of Warden and Allan discussing their discovery is below, courtesy [...]
by spinman on April 27, 2011
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Sony has confirmed that a data breach was the cause for the PSN outage. In a vague letter to customers, the gaming giant warned that 70 million users’ personal information was compromised. In addition, it fears credit card details were also included in the loss. On April 17, an unknown number of PSN [...]
