Aah, it's seems only yesterday that Chrome was a tiny little browser cradled in Google's arms. Well, Chrome has just released version 20 and is ready to take on the world, but not before a few security holes are fixed.
In what the company describes as a ‘system issue’, but what looks more like user error, Cunard inadvertently sent an email with a spreadsheet attachment containing the contact information of 1,225 Cunard passengers to an unspecified number of customers.
Il était annoncé, donc attendu, et il est arrivé avec l’été : un guide de l’ANSSI intitulé « Maîtriser la SSI pour les systèmes industriels », accompagné d’un « Cas pratique ».
Sa seule existence est déjà utile pour « officialiser » le sujet, [...] Lire la suite
Every EU committee tasked with recommending how the European Parliament should vote on the ratification of the ACTA agreement has now voted: No. But ACTA just won’t lie down.
In what has been described as “the largest coordinated international law enforcement [carding] action in history”, the FBI has arrested 12 US citizens among a total of 24 arrests in eight countries.
One of the more interesting aspects of the Flame malware was the MD5 collision attack that was used to infect new machines through Windows Update. MD5 collisions are not new, but this is the first attack discovered in the wild and deserves a more in-depth look. Trail of Bits is uniquely qualified to...
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint against Wyndham Hotels for data security failures that led to three data breaches in less than two years and resulted in the theft of close to 620,000 payment card numbers.
Invincea yesterday announced a $21.4m contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) for a secure version of Android phones and tablets.
Hackers are able to bypass CAPTCHA security measures using computer-assisted tools and crowdsourcing to gain access to personal and financial information, Imperva warned in its latest Hacker Intelligence Report.
Spammers and scammers use international events and disasters as the lure for their ware. Euro 2012 provides both: an international event littered with individual disasters when national teams are dismissed.
A new study by Kroll Advisory Solutions highlights the information security risks lurking in oft-neglected places, such as voicemail, conference calls, and even the mailroom.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found that software flaws in medical devices are leading to compromises of those devices.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is working to improve its network security monitoring in response to a failing grade on the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) scorecard, according to Jerry Horton, the agency’s chief information officer.
"Security researcher Brandon Dixon has discovered a way to bypass the Antivirus detection for malicious PDFs," writes eHackingNews, "using the XML Data Package(XDP) format." It goes on to add that "opening the malicious XDP file can result in Adobe Reader Exploit."
Jonathan Ness, security development manager of Security Science – part of the Trustworthy Computing group – claimed that Microsoft are looking to reduce or eliminate exploit based attacks by increasing the cost required to develop attacks – specifically the discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilit...
On June 20th at the Microsoft HQ in Seattle, Bill Harmon, associate general counsel, Microsoft digital crimes unit, presented at the TwC International Media Campus Tour on child sexual exploitation online. While he assessed that the problems we have today with child safety is so much greater than th...
Online travel website Kayak.com is investigating a security breach in which personal information of users was available through its search engine.
The man responsible for the security of AT&T’s network recently told one audience that mobility is perhaps the death knell for trust within an organization’s network perimeter. His solution lies in a gradual network-based security strategy that moves your assets into the cloud.
A Pennsylvania man has been arrested for hacking into computer networks at the Department of Energy (DOE), the University of Massachusetts (U-Mass), and a number of companies and trying to sell access to these networks to an uncover FBI agent.
Webroot has reported the arrival of fake anti-virus, one of the most prevalent of PC threats, on the Android mobile platform. Beware of the Android Security Suite Premium – it’s a trojan.