The Global Cyber War from MentalWardPublishing.com presented free by McGuinnessPublishing.com
There’s the danger you know, and then there’s the danger you don’t know.
Most of us are rightfully wary of downloading and running programs that have no pedigree, or of performing day-to-day operations as an administrative user. But with each passing year, new security threats march in to eclipse the old — many of them not [...] Read more »
There’s the danger you know, and then there’s the danger you don’t know.
Most of us are rightfully wary of downloading and running programs that have no pedigree, or of performing day-to-day operations as an administrative user. But with each passing year, new security threats march in to eclipse the old — many of them not [...] Read more »
Apple patched 92 vulnerabilities, a third of them critical, in a record update to its Leopard and Snow Leopard operating systems.
Security Update 2010-002 plugged 92 holes in the client and server editions of Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.6, breaking a record that has stood since March 2008. The update dwarfed any [...] Read more »
People who downloaded Adobe Reader for Windows from Adobe’s Reader download site or Flash Player for Windows from Adobe’s Flash Player site prior to the release of the security bulletin on Tuesday are vulnerable, the company said. The issue is resolved for any new downloads of Reader and Flash Player from those sites.
Download Manager is [...] Read more »
Apple’s new iPad device looks like it will have some of the same security issues that affect the iPhone, such as weak encryption, a mobile security expert said on Thursday.
For one, if the iPad employs encryption the same way the iPhone does, sensitive personal data, including phone numbers and e-mail addresses, could be retrieved and [...] Read more »
An annual hacking contest that has made mincemeat of security on both Mac and Windows computers will set its sights on smartphones and browsers with as much as $100,000 in awards next month.
Now in its fourth year, the Pwn2Own competition will award $60,000 for exploits that successfully penetrate Apple’s iPhone 3GS, Research in Motion’s Blackberry [...] Read more »
Sun has released updates for Java SE. These updates address multiple security issues in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and Java SE Development Kit (JDK). Note that the Sun security alerts corresponding to the specific vulnerabilities addressed in this update are not available at the time of this entry.
US-CERT encourages users to review Java SE 6 Release [...] Read more »
Adobe has released a Security Bulletin to address multiple security issues in Flash Player. Some of these issues may allow an attacker to conduct clickjacking types of attacks that could enable the camera or microphone through Flash Player. Additional information about clickjacking attacks can be found in a recently posted Current Activity entry.
US-CERT encourages users [...] Read more »
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