| At Last – Adobe Launches Sandboxed Flash Player For Firefox |
| Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:29:43 +0000 |
Finally a proactive measure from Adobe to try and remedy the horrible security flaws they have introduced to Firefox with their Flash Player. There have been some massive hacks recently due to Flash - - Hackers Exploiting Latest Adobe Flash Bug On Large Scale - Adobe Patches Latest Flash Zero Day Vulnerability - Adobe Promises [...]
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| Super Powered Malware Sandwiches Found In The Wild – Frankenmalware |
| Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:03:54 +0000 |
Now this is quite a fascinating story, especially if you know anything about Malware and have interests in that area. It seems the latest development is the accidental development of new super-malware strains created by viruses infecting executable files of worms. Worms are generally executable files and well, viruses infect executables – so...
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| Sprint Adds Google Wallet Into New NFC Capable Phones |
| Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:38:47 +0000 |
Oh look, another aspect of security and privacy to consider as Google pushes its’ mobile payment solution ‘Wallet’ onto two new NFC capable phones – the Galaxy Nexus & LG Viper. If you haven’t heard of the service you can find out more here – Google Wallet (Wikipedia). The main concern here (security wise)...
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| Ramnit Worm Stealing Facebook Account Passwords, E-mail Address & Bank Details |
| Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:22:00 +0000 |
Oh look, another Facebook worm – this one seems pretty nasty and as usual it’s going for Facebook access details and then diving into banking credentials if it can find them. It’s mostly targeted at the UK though, worms of these type usually are geographically limited as they are targeting bank information – it’s...
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| US Subway Stores POS Hacked For $3Million Dollars |
| Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:52:25 +0000 |
Honestly there hasn’t been much news over the holiday period, well maybe there was but no one bothered reporting it. There was the Stratfor case of course, which Anonymous is saying wasn’t anything to do with them. The scale of this incident somehow reminds me of the whole TJ MAXX fiasco a few years back. [...]
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