A study with mice suggests that exposure in the womb to the plastics chemical bisphenol A (BPA) could put males at greater risk for prostate cancer later in life. The findings are early, however, and can't prove a causal link between BPA ...
Tags: Cancer Risk, Plastics Chemical, BPA
We were already aware of the existence of illicit marketplaces teeming with tools for cybercriminals looking to subvert the security of online networks. But one of the latest revelations from the cache of documents stolen by NSA ...
Tags: cybercriminals, security of online networks, Edward Snowden, NSA
Israeli researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) said a security flaw was discovered by a team member, a PhD student, and that this vulnerability could enable interception of data on Samsung mobile devices based on the Knox ...
Target shoppers. Just in time for the holidays, your credit card data has been compromised. And according to Brian Krebs, the purloined information has been "flooding underground black markets in recent weeks, selling in batches of one ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Debit Cards, Credit
On any given day cybercriminals and nation states are in possession of as many as 100 zero-day software exploits known only to them, NSS Labs has calculated using the commercial vulnerability market as a baseline. NSS Labs research ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Security vendor Symantec has discovered a Linux worm called Linux.Darlloz that has been engineered to exploit a known bug in PHP (php-cgi Information Disclosure Vulnerability) that was patched last year. Vulnerable devices include unpatched ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Facebook and Microsoft are winning plaudits from security researchers for launching an initiative to offer bounties to bug hunters who discover and report vulnerabilities in widely used products. Unlike other bug bounty programmes, the ...
Tags: security, researcher, laud, Microsoft, Facebook, bounty
Malicious software aimed at stealing online banking credentials surged in the third quarter of this year to a level not seen since 2002, according to a new report from Trend Micro. The security vendor said it counted more than 200,000 new ...
The website of a U.S. organisation specialising in national and international security policy was compromised with malware that targeted a previously unknown vulnerability in Internet Explorer. A nation-state looking to compromise the ...
Tags: Nation-state, attack, IE, flaw
Value-added distributor Spectrami held a Muscat workshop in conjunction with Tenable Network Security which addressed a variety of security concerns. TechCafe’ covered real time security concerns, advance threats, vulnerability and ...
The creators of a Web-based attack tool called Angler Exploit Kit have added an exploit for a known vulnerability in Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in to the tool's arsenal. Exploit kits are essentially malicious Web applications ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Microsoft today said that attackers are exploiting a critical and unpatched vulnerability in Office 2007 using malformed documents to hijack Windows PCs, and that Office 2003 and Office 2010 are also vulnerable. The bug can be triggered ...
Tags: Microsoft, software, Computer Products
Microsoft might stop updating Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) antivirus software on systems running Windows XP after next April's support cut-off, the company has suggested. So far this is little more than?a statement?sent to a news ...
Tags: Windows XP, Computer Products, software
“Collecting more and more unstructured data will open up another whole degree of attractiveness and may well lead to attackers seeing value in a form not previously recognised by the organisation that owns the data.” So ...
BeyondTrust is using GITEX to make its mark on the Middle East, having proclaimed that it is ready to do serious business within the region. As part of the vendor’s drive to push into the region, it recently appointed Sudarshan ...
Tags: BeyondTrus, GITEX