CSO-It was almost a year ago that a curious mathematician with no real Internet security training was able to walk through a gaping security hole left by Google--a weak email cryptographic key. But most security experts say that while the ...
Tags: Google, Email Security, Catastrophe, Internet security
The UK government's Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme does not help datacentres become more efficient, according to Adriaan Oosthoek (pictured), vice-president of not-for-profit industry association Data Centre ...
Infoworld-In releasing updates to its client and server Ubuntu Linux distributions today,Canonical will enable users to turn off a search option in its client product that has raised some eyebrows over privacy issues.A ...
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There is a fundamental flaw in Salesforce.com's terms and conditions that puts customers at risk of losing access to services in the event of a third-party software vendor going out of business, according to voice provider Resilient ...
Tags: Salesforce, SaaS, Alzheimer, Microsoft
WASHINGTON --- The majority of merchant plaintiffs in a multibillion-dollar proposed antitrust settlement over credit card swiping fees now say they oppose the agreement with Visa, MasterCard and some of the nation's largest banks. "The ...
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Security researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in all supported versions of Oracle Java that enables attackers to bypass sandbox defences. The vulnerability, which affects Java Standard Edition versions 5, 6 and 7, can be used ...
Tags: Java Flaw, Bypass Sandbox, vulnerability, Security Explorations
A security researcher known for finding Java bugs has uncovered a new critical zero-day vulnerability in all currently-supported versions of the popular Oracle software. The bug,which was publicly reported on the Full Disclosure security ...
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Microsoft has released an emergency out-of-cycle patch for the latest zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that affects versions IE6 to IE9. The security update also addresses four other unrelated vulnerabilities,which were ...
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Industrial Ethernet switches and other devices produced by industrial networking equipment manufacturer RuggedCom contain a vulnerability that could be exploited to compromise SSL-based communications between them and their users,according ...
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Contactless fare cards in the New Jersey and San Francisco transit systems can be manipulated using an Android application,enabling travelers to reset their card balance and travel for free,researchers demonstrated Thursday at the EUSecWest ...
Computerworld - Microsoft on Wednesday released a stopgap defense that protects Internet Explorer (IE) against attacks until the company issues a patch on Friday. The update will fix five flaws, including one revealed by a security ...
Microsoft says it is investigating reports of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6,7,8,and 9 as well as targeted attacks that have attempted to exploit the vulnerability. The zero-day flaw,which does not affect Explorer 10,was ...
Tags: Microsoft Investigates, IE ZeroDay Flaw, targeted attacks
Many automated teller machines(ATMs)and point-of-sale(POS)terminals fail to properly generate random numbers that are required by the EMV protocol to securely authenticate transaction requests,according to a team of researchers from the ...
Tags: ATMs, POS terminal, EMV, secret encryption key, ARQC
The CEO of a small Florida publishing company has suggested that it was the source of a leak of one-million-plus Apple users'personal details,which hacking group Anonymous had attributed to the compromised Dell laptop of FBI agent ...
Computerworld - Siemens is working on a fix for a remotely exploitable vulnerability in network routers and switches from subsidiary RuggedCom that are widely deployed in refineries, power substations and other critical infrastructure ...
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