An posting from Cnet news: Video service Vudu began warning users today that it has instituted a systemwide password reset following an office break-in last month. A burglary March 24 resulted in the loss of hard drives that contained users’ sensitive personal information, including names, e-mail addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, account activity, dates of birth, and […]
An posting from Dark reading: Passwords are the weak link for companies of all sizes, but many small and midsize businesses (SMBs) rely on their workers to make the right choice in selecting strong passwords. Unfortunately, when left to their own devices, most employees do not get it right: Either due to a lack of […]
No surprises, simply time to do your monthly duty on the second Tuesday of the month. No, not clean the fish tank, apply your Microsoft and Adobe fixes! As Paul pointed out last week, there are nine updates released today covering Windows, Internet Explorer, SharePoint, Defender and InfoPath. To read more click here:
An posting from NBC NEWS in the technology section about Google Maps contest under privacy investigation in India: NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Police in India are investigating to determine whether U.S. Internet company Google Inc. violated rules in a competition that asked users to add information about their local areas for its online map services […]
An posting from SC Magzine on Microsft patch: Microsoft is readying nine patches to be released Tuesday as part of the software giant’s monthly security update. Two of the nine fixes address vulnerabilities rated “critical,” meaning they could be exploited to execute remote code, while the remaining seven patches attend to flaws deemed “important,” according […]
An posting from Tech News about Scribd Hack Exposes Thousands of Users: It’s much easier to spend your Internet time watching funny cat videos than to actually do something productive, but the educational stuff is out there. Take Scribd, for instance: a virtual library of free content that ranges from book previews to science journal articles […]
An posting from DarkRead about Google Uses Reputation To Detect Malicious Downloads: Google researchers have combined a number of reputation techniques to create a system that is 99 percent successful in detecting and blocking malicious executables downloaded by users of its Chrome browser. The system, known as Content-Agnostic Malware Protection or CAMP, triages up to […]
An posting from Forbes about Why Your Next Phone Will Include Fingerprint, Facial, and Voice Recognition : In some ways, it’s a marvel that even half of consumers bother to lock their phones. You would think the benefits would be obvious enough: by entering a few numbers, you can achieve a basic level of protection […]
An article from SCMagzine about Public safety personnel targeted by DoS attacks flooding phone lines: Telephone lines for public safety and emergency communication workers have been inundated with bogus calls, an attack characterized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and FBI as telephony denial-of-service (TDoS), which is being used to extort money from victims. Last […]
An posting from ThreatPost about Hackers Compromise The War Z Forum, Game Databases: Hackers compromised the forum and game database of the massively multiplayer online game, The War Z, forcing the game’s producer OP Productions to temporarily take the game and its forum offline. In a security alert issued yesterday, OP Productions informed The War […]
