Security researchers have proposed several methods for users to protect their computers from ongoing attacks that target a new and yet-to-be-patched vulnerability in all versions of Java Runtime Environment 7. Most of the proposed ...
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Attacks targeting an unpatched vulnerability in the latest versions of Java 7 have become widespread after an exploit for the new flaw was integrated into the popular Blackhole attack toolkit, according to security researchers from ...
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Late next year, consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native hypervisor software or use an app allowing them to run two interfaces on the phone: one for personal use, one for work. The technology could help ...
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Research and advisory firm, Gartner, has released its list of technology predictions and trends for the years 2013 and beyond. According to Gartner, its top predictions focus on economic risks, opportunities and innovations that will ...
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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, ...
There are about 2.2 million people working as information security professionals today, says Hord Tipton, executive officer for security education and credentialing organization (ISC)2 and former CIO of the U.S. Department of the Interior. ...
An undetermined number of users of Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service are having difficulties accessing the online gaming service, and the company said on Friday that it is working to resolve the issue. According to the Xbox Live status ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Respiratory Motion's ExSpiron respiratory monitoring system, designed for monitoring breathing abnormalities often associated with potentially lethal respiratory depression. ...
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Microsoft on Monday issued a security advisory that confirmed in-the-wild attacks are exploiting an unpatched bug in Internet Explorer. The software maker is working on a fix. The advisory addressed the “zero-day” ...
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Accusations that an Android-based botnet is spewing spam may, in fact, be no such thing, but instead a sign that criminals are exploiting bugs in the Yahoo Mail app for Google's mobile operating system, a security firm said today. ...
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As many as 300,000 PCs and Macs will drop off the Internet in about 65 hours unless their owners heed last-minute calls to scrub their machines of malware. According to a group of security experts formed to combat DNSChanger, between a ...
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Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack, Symantec, PayPal and other organisations. On Sunday, a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers, MySQL databases, routers and ...
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Dropbox is investigating reports that some European users are receiving spam to email addresses associated with their accounts, the company said Tuesday. Dropbox, whose cloud storage service is widely used, said in a statement that "we ...
Security company Onapsis released on Wednesday a product that allows intrusion detection systems to recognize attacks against SAP applications holding critical financial and business data. The product, called Onapsis IPS, is a collection ...
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Nigeria has become the first country in Africa to ban telecom operators from engaging in the type of promotions and lotteries that are being blamed for deterioration in the quality of mobile services. The action by Nigeria, Africa's ...
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