Years ago the typical hacking scenario involved a lone attacker and maybe some buddies working late at night on Mountain Dew, looking for public-facing IP addresses. When they found one, they enumerated the advertising services (Web server, ...
Microsoft has patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company’s popular Word programme and another already used to attack ...
Tags: Bugs, Microsoft, Patches, Steve Ballmer, Trojan, vulnerabilities
IDG News Service-German consumer organizations are suing Facebook because the social network keeps sharing personal data with third-party app makers without getting explicit consent from users. Third party apps often want access to a ...
Tags: German consumer organizations, Facebook, social network, personal data
Twitter has apologised after telling members their accounts had been hacked and forcing them to reset their passwords. Twitter sent out a"large number"of emails telling members to change their log-in details,but gave no indication of the ...
Tags: Twitter, apologises, unnecessary hacking warnings, protect users
One-quarter of more than 400,000 Android apps examined in the Google Play store pose security risks to mobile-device users,according to new research. SECURITY:Android malware market exploding,says Trend Micro Security vendor Bit9 ...
Tags: Security Research, Android apps, mobile-device, Google Play
One-quarter of more than 400,000 Android apps examined in the Google Play store pose security risks to mobile-device users,according to new research. SECURITY:Android malware market exploding,says Trend Micro Security vendor Bit9 ...
Tags: Google, android apps, android malware market, Bit9
McAfee Data Protection has pledged to invest heavily in social engineering and so-called 'wetware' (meaning human-focused) technologies in order to protect users from a continual increase in social network-based spoofing and false link ...
Tags: McAfee, social engineering, wetware, Michael DeCesare
Strategic planning is the only option if risk and security leaders want to succeed in a rapidly changing world,the opening session of the Gartner Security&Risk Management Summit 2012 heard in London. According to Gartner,the biggest ...
Tags: Gartner Security and Risk Summit, Strategic planning key to survival
Computerworld-Oracle today issued an emergency update to patch the critical vulnerabilities hackers have been using in increasing numbers to hijack Windows PCs. According to Rapid7,the security firm that maintains the Metasploit ...
Tags: Oracle, patch, hackers, hijack Windows PCs
After the launch of non-PFC constant current (C.C.) mode models LPHC/LPLC-18(18W), LPC-20(20W), LPC-35(35W), and LPC-60(60W), MEAN WELL continuous to introduce another 25W AC/DC plastic case LED power supply with active PFC function and ...