WISeID Social app and its website WISeID.com have provided encryption services for Facebook walls since 2010. Now WISeID Social can also encrypt Google+ wall postings, SMS and tweets, allowing privacy over any communication service, even ...
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Arms vendors are moving into the cyber security sector in response to a decline in sales of their traditional weapons, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute It is the first time that annual arms sales have ...
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Chinese authorities may be exploiting a security hole in Microsoft Office for Mac to target the Uyghur people, an ethnic group of people who live in parts of Asia and are seeking independence from Chinese rule, according to Kaspersky and ...
The President, in his annual State of the Union speech to a joint session of the US Congress, said the United States is facing a “rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks.” “We know hackers steal people's identities and ...
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Cyber attacks in the UK cost the country up to 27bn each year. A report by the National Audit Office warned that the IT skills shortage in Britain could make it vulnerable against cyber attacks for the next 20 years. The UK suffered ...
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The US is vulnerable to cyberattacks that could shut down financial services or destroy information that companies need for daily operations, the chairman of the US House Intelligence Committee says. Mike Rogers said 95 per cent of ...
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The US Federal Reserve has confirmed its computer systems were accessed by hackers but said the incident did not affect the central bank's "critical operations". The acknowledgement came days after the hacker group known as Anonymous ...
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Security vendor Bit9 promised to release limited details of a hack caused by a failure of the company to install the same security software on its own network that it sells to a handful of Fortune 500 companies. Bit9, which is based in ...
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Microsoft this week patched 14 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE), preparing the browser for its time as a target early next month at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest. On Tuesday, Microsoft patched 57 vulnerabilities, including ...
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Adobe last week announced it would add a new security feature to Flash Player in an attempt to block some of the exploits hackers are hiding inside older Microsoft Office documents. The new feature -- a pop-up warning -- will be triggered ...
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Devices used by many radio and TV stations to broadcast emergency messages as part of the U.S. Emergency Alert System (EAS) contain critical vulnerabilities that expose them to remote hacker attacks, according to researchers from security ...
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A critical buffer overflow vulnerability patched this week in the widely used open-source cURL library (libcurl) has the potential to expose a large number of applications and systems to remote code execution attacks. CURL is a ...
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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 ...
iOS jailbreaks may come and go, but Apple continues to warn that hacking an iPhone to install unapproved software, while not illegal, may void the device's service warranty. The latest jailbreak -- the term for leveraging a vulnerability ...
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 ...