A Polish security firm known for rooting out Java vulnerabilities has reported two new bugs in the browser plug-in to Oracle, Security Explorations said today. On its bug-reporting status page, Security Explorations noted that it had ...
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Microsoft's Azure cloud platform faced a worldwide outage in its storage services from Friday afternoon because of an expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate. The company also reported problems with its Xbox Music and Video Store ...
Zendesk said Thursday a hacker gained access to support information for some customers of its online help desk software. "We've become aware that a hacker accessed our system this week," wrote Mikkel Svane, Zendesk's CEO. "As soon as we ...
Microsoft has confirmed that it's the latest among a number of high-profile technology and internet firms to have been hit by a cyber attack. A blog posted on Friday by Microsoft security manager Matt Thomlinson revealed: Java is a ...
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Microsoft last week disclosed that it recently fell victim to the same type of cyber attack that targeted Apple and Facebook. “During our investigation, we found a small number of computers, including some in our Mac business unit, ...
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U.S. consumers experienced the highest level of identity theft in three years in 2012, although much of the fraud losses were absorbed by banks and merchants, according to a new survey. Incidents of identity fraud affected 5.26 percent of ...
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Attackers are using fake versions of a recently released report about a Chinese cyberespionage group as bait in new spear-phishing attacks that target Japanese and Chinese users. The report was released Tuesday by security firm Mandiant ...
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Godson-3B1500 is a two-node eight-core 172.8Gflop/s MIPS64-compatible processor from Loongson in Beijing - a company whose processors have been adopted in several tablets. Fabricated in 32nm 10 Cu-layer high-k metal-gate bulk CMOS, it ...
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A new report traces a large cybersecurity threat group to China's People's Liberation Army, specifically a unit that goes under the cover name "Unit 61398." Security company Mandiant said in a report released Tuesday that an Advanced ...
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Apple on Tuesday said it was a victim of a malware attack when a small number of systems inside the company were compromised. The malware attack was tied to a vulnerability in a Java plug-in for browsers, Apple said in a statement sent ...
Apple says it has been hit by hackers who wormed their way into the California company's system but evidently failed to steal any data. The maker of iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macintosh computers said it is working with law enforcement ...
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This is one of the sadder stories we’ve covered in this space. Earlier this year, a man shot three people in an office park in Phoenix, Arizona. One victim, Steven Singer, president and CEO of call center company Fusion Contact ...
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Several Certificate Authorities (CAs) have formed an advocacy group called the Certificate Authority Security Council (CASC), which will focus on promoting new security standards, policies and best practices for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) ...
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Adobe on Thursday updated Flash Player to patch a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers were already using to hijack Windows PCs and Macs. The out-of-band, or emergency, update was Flash's first of the year and the first since ...
The developers of many SSL libraries are releasing patches for a vulnerability that could potentially be exploited to recover plaintext information, such as browser authentication cookies, from encrypted communications. The patching ...