An average of 96% of the top 100 paid mobile apps have been hacked, a study has revealed. Android is the most susceptible platform, according to the State of Security in the App Economy report by security firm Arxan Technologies. The ...
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A researcher who discovered a security flaw in Ubisoft's Uplay gaming application said PCs used for gaming should be isolated from business and other networks. "I air-gap the machine I use to play games," said Tavis Ormandy, a Google ...
The Information Commissioner's Office is to investigate claims that Tesco's website does not offer sufficient privacy protections to customers. The UK privacy watchdog's probe comes after security experts raised a number of privacy ...
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Advanced analysis of the Morcut Mac OS X malware that targets computers running Apple’s Mac operating system (OS) or Microsoft’s Windows OS has revealed that it also targets virtual machines and Windows mobiles. The malware, ...
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An exploit for an unpatched vulnerability in the Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) has been incorporated into Blackhole, one of the most widely used Web attack toolkits, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Sophos. The ...
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This is the third in a series of interviews with C-level executives responsible for cyber security and privacy in business and government, who also happen to be thought leaders. (Remember, as I mentioned previously, "C-level executive" and ...
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CoDeSys, a piece of software running on industrial control systems (ICS) from over 200 vendors contains a vulnerability that allows potential attackers to execute sensitive commands on the vulnerable devices without the need for ...
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SQL injection (SQLi) attacks rose 69% in the second quarter of 2012 compared with the previous quarter, according to the latest report from secure cloud hosting firm FireHost. FireHost said that, between April and June, it blocked nearly ...
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Adobe on Tuesday announced that it will pair future security updates for its popular Flash Player with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule. At the same time, Adobe issued an update that patched seven critical Flash vulnerabilities, and ...
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The following have all combined to limit control of foreign minerals by US companies: In 2011, Resource nationalism became the number one risk for mining companies Nationalization Expropriation Increased taxation Constraints on the degree ...
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IDG News Service - Attackers are exploiting a new and unpatched vulnerability that affects the latest version of Java -- Java 7 Update 6 -- in order to infect computers with malware, according to researchers from security vendor FireEye. ...
IDG News Service - Java vulnerabilities are increasingly exploited by attackers to infect computers, and the problem could become worse if Oracle doesn't do more to secure the product and keep its installation base up to date, according to ...
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IDG News Service - It appears the hacker known as "Pinkie Pie" produced the first Chrome vulnerability at the Hack In the Box conference on Wednesday, just ahead of the deadline for the competition this afternoon. Google security ...
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Computerworld - Two security organizations have released online tools that let Windows users check for possible infections by Gauss, the newly-revealed cyber surveillance malware thought to have been built by one or more governments. ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft today confirmed that it will patch a vulnerability in Windows next week that has been exploited by an increasing number of attacks. Initially, experts wondered whether Microsoft would patch the XML Core Services ...
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