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Adobe warns of Flash, PDF zero-day attacks
Adobe issued an alert late Friday night to warn about zero-day attacks against an unpatched vulnerability in its Reader and Flash Player software products. The vulnerability, described as critical,...
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Symantec buys VeriSign checkmark for $1.28 Billion
On the surface, it might sound like one of those amateurish conclusions a blogger might reach after having just read the press release: Symantec, a software company now mainly known for security...
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Linux trojan raises malware concerns
I've got good news and bad news for those of the misguided perception that Linux is somehow impervious to attack or compromise. The bad news is that it turns out a vast collection of Linux systems may,...
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Fading data could improve privacy
Privacy could be enhanced if data was allowed to fade, suggests research. Dutch researcher Dr Harold van Heerde is looking into ways to gradually "degrade" the information that sites gather about...
View ArticleKaspersky TDSSKiller kills rootkits fast
Rootkits are the ultimate in stealthy malware, burying themselves so deep into your system that they're often very hard to spot. If you're unlucky enough to encounter one then your antivirus package...
View ArticleSony admits hackers took PSN user data
Sony warned that hackers stole password, birthday and other data about users of its PlayStation Network that connected PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles to online games, films and more. PlayStation Network...
View ArticleXBox Live on guard after PSN hack
Microsoft warned its Xbox Live users today to be on alert of any potential scammers who want to steal your sensitive personal information. Just recently, the Playstation Network suffered an intrusion...
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Internet threat level rises on expanded IE attacks
The Internet Storm Center on Saturday boosted its threat level to "Yellow," indicating a "significant new threat" to Internet users from attacks exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in all versions...
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Why not to use autocomplete
Today at Pubcon Matt Cutts of Google once again promoted the use of autocomplete-type, a new property for web forms that works in Chrome (and possibly other browsers, I haven’t checked). Google first...
View ArticleKeePass nears password management perfection
Open-source password manager KeePass 2.24 has been released for Windows. The tool, which allows users to manage a variety of online and offline passwords via a secure, encrypted container, boasts a...
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Throw out those bad passwords
California-based password management software specialist SplashData has released the results of its annual list of the internet’s worst passwords. For the first time "password" has been knocked off...
View ArticleSoftware vulnerability patching is too slow
Security holes and vulnerabilities are to be expected, but not enough is being done to patch holes quickly enough. This is the conclusion of Heimdal Security who conducted analysis of software...
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Microsoft is banning your stupidly easy-to-guess passwords
No matter how many times we tell you to change your passwords and make it anything but your birthday, “123456,” or “password,” many still aren’t taking the efforts to make their accounts more secure....
View ArticleWireless keyboards and mice vulnerable
In 2015, the two SySS employees Matthias Deeg and Gerhard Klostermeier started a research project about the security of modern wireless desktop sets using AES encryption, as there was no publicly...
View ArticleSony admits hackers took PSN user data
Sony warned that hackers stole password, birthday and other data about users of its PlayStation Network that connected PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles to online games, films and more. PlayStation Network...
View ArticleXBox Live on guard after PSN hack
Microsoft warned its Xbox Live users today to be on alert of any potential scammers who want to steal your sensitive personal information. Just recently, the Playstation Network suffered an intrusion...
View ArticleInternet threat level rises on expanded IE attacks
The Internet Storm Center on Saturday boosted its threat level to "Yellow," indicating a "significant new threat" to Internet users from attacks exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in all versions of...
View ArticleWhy not to use autocomplete
Today at Pubcon Matt Cutts of Google once again promoted the use of autocomplete-type, a new property for web forms that works in Chrome (and possibly other browsers, I haven’t checked). Google first...
View ArticleKeePass nears password management perfection
Open-source password manager KeePass 2.24 has been released for Windows. The tool, which allows users to manage a variety of online and offline passwords via a secure, encrypted container, boasts a...
View ArticleThrow out those bad passwords
California-based password management software specialist SplashData has released the results of its annual list of the internet’s worst passwords. For the first time "password" has been knocked off the...
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