Apple will challenge a November 2012 jury verdict that awarded $368 million in damages to Nevada patent-holding company VirnetX, a filing with U.S. regulators showed. In a Form 10-Q filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange ...
Researchers following a cyber espionage campaign apparently bent on stealing drone-related technology secrets have found additional malware related to the targeted attacks. FireEye researchers have been tracking so-called "Operation ...
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Thousands of older systems, including those used to manage critical industrial control equipment, traffic lights, fuel pumps, retail point-of-sale terminals and building automation are vulnerable to tampering because they're insecurely ...
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The largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, is in a continuing battle with miscreants trying to manipulate the price of the virtual currency. Early Monday, Mt. Gox wrote on its Facebook page that it was once again struggling with a very large ...
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Researchers from security firm Trusteer have found a new variant of the Gozi banking Trojan program that infects a computer's Master Boot Record (MBR) in order to achieve persistence. The Master Boot Record (MBR) is a boot sector that ...
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Thousands of wireless IP cameras connected to the Internet have serious security weaknesses that allow attackers to hijack them and alter their firmware, according to two researchers from security firm Qualys. The cameras are sold under ...
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System administrators and IT security pros can take bit of a breather: Microsoft issued a comparatively light set of patches for this edition of its monthly release of software vulnerability fixes. "It's a boring Patch Tuesday this month, ...
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Security firm Symantec has found that banking Trojan Shylock – malware which aims to infect computers – is currently targeting more than 60 financial institutions, the majority of which are in the UK. In a blog, the firm ...
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Security vendor Sophos has released an update for the software used on its Web gateway security appliance in order to address three serious vulnerabilities in the product's Web-based user interface. The vulnerabilities could allow ...
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Twitter users in Japan have been warning of a growing number of messages with embedded links that cause mobile and PC browsers to display taunting messages and freeze. Many of the messages are sent by what appear to be dummy accounts with ...
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 ...
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Two researchers from security firm Imperva have devised new techniques that could allow attackers to extract sensitive information from users' encrypted Web traffic. The new methods build on those used in an attack called CRIME revealed ...
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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 cyber-security company was the big winner at a new awards event. The awards were part of a three day event called Innovate UK 2013, which is a joint venture by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) aimed ...
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China has offered to open discussions with the US on the issue of cyber security, following tit-for-tat accusations by both sides of hacking and stealing data from government and corporate websites. The Chinese offer follows comments by ...
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