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Category: Security
US government to impose visa restrictions on Chinese hackers participating in DefCon
Jeff Moss: “First I have heard of it, boarding flight to DC now. I don’t think it helps build positive community. More later.”
Authorities in US, Europe to formally probe eBay over security breach
EBay is going to be formally investigated in US and Europe, authorities in both the regions have revealed.
Apple too late to curb iCloud activation mechanism flaw
Apple is so too late in fixing a flaw in its iCloud activation mechanism that leaves iOS users vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, allowing easy restore of lost iDevices without authentication, claims…
US public utility hit by ‘brute force’ attack
The US Department of Homeland Security confirmed that a public utility was hacked by a “sophisticated hacking group,” compromising the control system network without affecting the utility’s operations. The agency’s Industrial Control…
Google partners with Zix to tighten end-to-end encryption
Google has joined hands with Zix Corporation to launch Google Apps Message Encryption (GAME), specifically designed for the Google Apps infrastructure.
ICO: Companies ‘failing at basics’ may end up paying thousands in penalty
Companies running Windows XP could face penalties up to £500,000, in case of any security breach, warns UK’s privacy watchdog. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has released a report detailing the common security…
Feedly Android app vulnerable to JavaScript injection
Feedly Android app is vulnerable to JavaScript injection that could not only compromise privacy of millions of users. According to a Singapore based security researcher Jeremy S. Feedly’s Android app fails to…
Healthcare.gov resets passwords of all registered users in wake of Heartbleed
Healthcare.gov has reset passwords of all its registered users after reports of active Heartbleed exploit have surfaced on the web. Heathcare.gov has noted that there have been no instances of information compromise…
Michaels Stores’ security breach affected over 3 million credit cards
Michaels Stores on Thursday confirmed that there was a security breach of certain payment card processing systems at its US stores and its subsidiary, Aaron Brothers. Michaels Stores Inc, one of the…
Oracle rolls out security fixes for 104 vulnerabilities
Oracle on Tuesday released the quarterly Critical Patch Update, along with security fixes to address the Heartbleed vulnerabilities in various products. Last week, the company issued a list of products affected by…
SRLabs: Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint scanner is not safe
Recent report has revealed that the fingerprint scanner on the new Samsung Galaxy S5 is not really all that secure. Germany’s Security Research Labs (SRLabs) researchers in a video posted on YouTube…
Tor: ‘We’ll lose about 12% of guard and exit capacity’ because of Heartbleed
Tor (The Onion Router), the internet traffic anonymising service, is bleeding due to the Heartbleed vulnerability, claims a recent report. According to the Register, some of the Tor nodes are running compromised…
ThetaRay: ‘Gloomy forecast is that Heartbleed will live on’
ThetaRay explains what is Heartbleed, what is its impact, what is OpenSSL, damage control, remediation and its alternatives. The recent discovery of a serious unknown vulnerability in OpenSLL has launched the world…
Google: GCE customers should manually update OpenSSL
Keeping up its promise, Google has issued security patch addressing the Heartbleed security vulnerability for its Compute Engine. Last week, the company promised to patch affected services like Cloud SQL, Google Compute…