Google plans to upgrade the security of its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates, an important component of secure communications. SSL certificates are used to encrypt communication and verify the integrity of another party with which ...
Tags: Google, SSL Encryption Keys, August
A recent intrusion on the computer network of Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor was the result of a large cyberespionage operation of Indian origin that for the past few years has targeted business, government and political ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Previously unknown Mac OS X spyware, signed with a valid Apple Developer ID, has turned up on the laptop of an activist from Angola at a human rights conference in Norway. Security researcher and privacy activist Jacob Appelbaum found the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that might have resulted in customer information being compromised. Hackers might have ...
Tags: Computer Products, Passwords
Security software vendor?Bitdefender?has launched its 'Antivirus Free' app on the?Google?Android?platform to combat the growth in mobile malware.? The app promises a "fast and powerful antivirus solution that taps the latest in-the-Cloud ...
A new piece of custom malware sold on the underground Internet market is being used to siphon payment card data from point-of-sale (POS) systems, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor McAfee. Dubbed vSkimmer, the ...
Tags: vSkimmer, malware, Internet market
A new piece of custom malware sold on the underground Internet market is being used to siphon payment card data from point-of-sale (POS) systems, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor McAfee. Dubbed vSkimmer, the ...
Tags: Vskimmer Malware, Point-of-Sale Systems, Computer Products
A new piece of custom malware sold on the underground Internet market is being used to siphon payment card data from point-of-sale (POS) systems, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor McAfee. Dubbed vSkimmer, the ...
Tags: Vskimmer Malware, Point-of-Sale Systems, Computer Products
Apple quietly updated Safari on Snow Leopard last week, refreshing the browser to v. 5.1.8 and providing more proof that it intends to support OS X 10.6 much longer than usual. Computerworld - Apple last week silently updated the aged ...
Tags: Apple, Computer Products, software
The Home Office has announced a plan to bring together the skills of the police, industry experts and academics in a Cyber Crime Reduction Partnership (CCRP) to help to stamp out cyber-crime. Security minister James Brokenshire announced ...
A Freedom Of Information (FOI) request has revealed the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) lost 83 BlackBerry devices and 17 laptops over the last three years. The FOI also showed 16 incidents of BIS issued mobile phones ...
Tags: BlackBerry devices, Information, laptops
Enterprises that use mobile device management (MDM) systems to protect their corporate data on employees' mobile phones are not safe from attacks from spyphones, researchers warned at BlackHat Europe on Thursday. Over the next five years, ...
Tags: MDM, software, Computer Products
Until late January, Apple's App Store servers did not encrypt all communications with iOS clients, which exposed users to several potential attacks, according to a Google security researcher. "The Apple App Store and associated ...
Tags: iOS App Store, iOS clients, Apple
Kaspersky Lab's Internet Security 2013 product contains a bug that can be exploited remotely, especially on local networks, to completely freeze the OS on computers running the software. The bug can be attacked by sending a specifically ...
A security researcher has found a loophole in how the HTML5 Web Storage standard is implemented in the Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Apple Safari browsers that could allow malicious websites to fill visitors' hard disk drives with ...
Tags: loophole, HTML5 Web Storage, security