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Google's Android Market employs Bouncer protection
3. Feb 2012, 10:41
Google is implementing ‘Bouncer’, a new security measure designed to prevent the spread of malicious content by scanning Android Market software applications (apps) for threats. ... more
Report examines the difference between real and fake Facebook profiles
3. Feb 2012, 07:00
A recent report from Barracuda Labs highlights the differences between real Facebook profiles, and the fake ones often used to propagate spam and other scams on the popular social network, which just so happens to be heading for a lucrative IPO. ... more
The need for truthful and honest product disclosure in IT Security
3. Feb 2012, 07:00
The exponential rise in cyber- attacks and the seemingly lock-step proliferation of security products to safeguard against said attacks seem to have created an unintelligible quagmire for consumers of IT security products. Simply put, consumers have to wade through marketing propaganda and techno-speak in their quest for some form of reasonable assurance of a safe, private internet experience. ... more
VeriSign left executives and the public in the dark about breaches
3. Feb 2012, 06:30
The company that still maintains a large footprint in the Internet’s SSL market, and controls the root DNS for the .com, .net, and .gov domain space, was repeatedly attacked in 2010, resulting in at least one successful breach. Only, according to their statements to the SEC, those investigating the breach told no one, including the public and top company executives. ... more
Google discusses Android security measures
3. Feb 2012, 06:30
For the last year, discussions about the risk mobile devices, and the applications they run, have filled the headlines and annual reports of countless security vendors. On Thursday, Google opened up some on the measures they’ve taken to protect the people who’ve come to rely on the Android Market for their application needs. ... more
Privacy supporters are potential terrorists according to FBI promotion
2. Feb 2012, 10:00
The Bureau of Justice Assistance and the FBI, as part of the Communities Against Terrorism program (think “See Something / Say Something”), have released a flyer outlining several potential indicators of terrorist activities within Internet Cafés. Included among the potential warning signs, are anonymization software usage, steganography, and reading too many news sources on terrorist related events. ... more
RSA Conference denies bullying B-Sides San Francisco
31. Jan 2012, 12:00
The RSA Conference, one of the world’s largest Information Security gatherings, is facing criticism after it failed to reach a compromise over scheduling conflicts with a smaller event. According to organizers, when Security B-Sides held firm to their conference dates, RSA Conference invoked a non-compete clause in their sponsor contracts, forcing some security vendors to think twice before they could support the smaller conference. ... more
Infectious spam hijacks users who view the message
31. Jan 2012, 11:30
On Friday, eleven, an email security firm based in Germany, issued a warning to users to be on the lookout for spam that is taking advantage email client settings that allow messages to render HTML. The warning comes after researchers from the company noticed a rash of messages leveraging embedded JavaScript in order to download malicious code to the system. ... more
Outdated WordPress installations hijacked by crime kits
31. Jan 2012, 11:30
Hundreds of websites developed with the WordPress platform were hijacked recently, and used to compromise systems leveraging a recently patched Java vulnerability. In each case, the compromised domain was using an outdated version of WordPress. ... more
Anonymous rubbishes video clip announcing Facebook attack
25. Jan 2012, 08:15
Speaking through an AnonOps Twitter account that has a reliable and long-standing association with Anonymous, the group has rubbished the clip’s content and insisted it has no plans to sink Zuckerberg’s battleship. ... more
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- Streamlined data protection laws in the EU raise concerns
- Anonymous forces DOJ and several others to protest SOPA / PIPA
- Feds remove Megaupload from the Web over piracy charges
- Koobface drops offline after key members exposed
- McAfee to release patch for open-relay bug
- 24 million customer accounts exposed in Zappos hack
- T-Mobile staffers and PR team exposed by webserver breach
- Follow-up analysis of the Stratfor password list (Part 2)
