A variation of the recently disclosed attack that can wipe data from Samsung Android devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable the SIM cards from many Android phones, researchers say. Ravishankar Borgaonkar, a ...
Tags: USSD, SIM Cards, Samsung, Android Devices
Yahoo today said it has fixed the flaw that allowed hackers to steal more than 450,000 passwords from one of its many services. The company also provided more information about whose passwords had been pilfered. "We have...now fixed ...
Hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Java 7, security experts said today. The unpatched bug can be exploited through any browser running on any operating system, from Windows and Linux to OS X, that has Java installed, said ...
Tags: vulnerability, Java 7, Macs, Windows and Linux, OS X
Microsoft today released an emergency patch for Internet Explorer (IE) to stymie active attacks that have been exploiting a bug in the browser, finishing a job it started only Monday. "Let's call it five days from advisory to patch," said ...
Tags: Microsoft, emergency patch, IE, stymie active attacks, bug
Medical devices often use commercial PCs and have wireless connections that make them vulnerable to malware, or require software updates for security, but the U.S. may not be doing an adequate job tracking these risks, researchers ...
Tags: Medical-Device Security, security IT, malware, computer technology
Microsoft today patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company's popular Word program and another already used to attack the ...
Tags: Microsoft, vulnerabilities, Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server
Mozilla re-released Firefox 16 today after pulling the browser from distribution Wednesday when one of its developers found a critical bug that could be used by attackers to hijack machines. At around 2:30 p.m. ET, Mozilla turned on its ...
Tags: Mozilla, Firefox 16, browser, critical bug, attackers, hijack machines
Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab is developing a secure operating system for industrial control systems, its chairman and CEO Eugene Kaspersky said on Tuesday. "Quite a few rumors about this project have appeared already on the ...
Oracle has released an out-of-cycle security update to patch newly identified vulnerabilities in Java 7 that have been widely exploited, after the security community urged the company not to wait. The move comes hot on the heels of news ...
Tags: Oracle, Metasploit tool, Blackhole exploit kit, Java vulnerabilities
Microsoft will "draw a line in the sand" come April 2014 when Windows XP exits support, security researchers said today, even if millions of customers are still running the aged OS and a zero-day bug threatens the Windows ecosystem. Or ...
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Microsoft has fixed 26 security holes in its software products – including five deemed "critical" – it said in its monthly security bulletin. The critical vulnerabilities affected Microsoft's Windows operating system, Internet ...
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Twitter has restricted the ability of attackers to post tweets and perform other actions on behalf of many users who have phone numbers associated with their accounts, but some users need to enable a PIN option in order to be protected. ...
Tags: Twitter, attackers, phone numbers, PIN option, SMS
While newly-discovered malware that attacks VMware virtual machines is no cause for undue concern, users can take some basic steps to protect apps and data, says security firm Trend Micro. Earlier this week, advanced analysis of the ...
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The Secure Decisions Division of Applied Visions has released a new version of its wireless network security visualization tool, MeerCAT Pro Version 4.0. NORTHPORT, NY, August 26, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- MeerCAT, a visualization tool ...
Tags: Secure Decisions, MeerCAT, wireless network, security visualization tool
A sophisticated cyber surveillance tool that monitors financial transactions with Middle Eastern banks was probably built by or under the auspices of a government, security researchers said today. Early Thursday, Moscow-based Kaspersky ...
Tags: cyber, financial transactions, Middle Eastern, banks, security