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Microsoft’s Big Bucks For Bugs Ups The Ante

A  Posting from Dark  Reading in there Application Security section: When Microsoft senior security strategist Katie Moussouris was asked two years ago whether Microsoft would ever consider a bug bounty program of its own, she left the door open ever so slightly on whether the software giant would abandon its longtime philosophy of not paying […]

Taking a closer look at the Glazunov exploit kit

A posting from Naked Security  on Glazunov exploit kit: The one I have chosen has been quite active of late, and has a few interesting characteristics I wanted to highlight. As it happens, I do not actually know its “official” name (as in the name assigned by the author), but it was originallychristened Glazunov by another researcher tracking […]

Tech Insight: Quick Wins For Strengthening SMB Security

A posting from Dark reading in there SMB Security section. Big or small, companies are being hacked every day no matter their size. Small businesses ask, “Why me? I don’t have anything worth stealing.” Yet they don’t realize how useful their high-speed Internet connections are as new launch points for brute-force SSH scans and DDoS […]

EU’s Cybersecurity Strategy gets harsh criticism from data protection advocate

A posting from Naked Security on Cybersecurty  Strategy : A top EU data privacy advocate has criticised the European Union’s plans to combat cybercrime, saying they don’t provide enough protection for personal data. In the same statement, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx suggested that too little attention has been paid to existing regulations and […]

Beware Of HTML5 Development Risks

A posting from Dark Reading in there Application Security section: As HTML5 continues to experience a groundswell of acceptance within the developer community, organizations must think seriously about how key changes in this latest standard will require them to shift their application security paradigms for Web and mobile apps. Designed to help developers more closely […]

Blackberry releases first security fixes for new Z10 smartphone

A posting from Naked Security: Blackberry released two security bulletins yesterday, fixing flaws in its software for the Blackberry Playbook and Blackberry Z10 smartphone. BSRT-2013-005 affects both the Z10 and the Playbook and fixes vulnerabilities in the bundled Adobe Flash Player. This raises an important question in my mind, though. Why on earth has Blackberry launched […]

BlackBerry Z10 incurs ‘critical’ security warning

A posting  in CNET New in there Security & Privacy Section: BlackBerry has issued a security advisory notice to those who have bought its flagship Z10 touchscreen smartphone — the first BlackBerry 10 device to launch following the company’s bid for revival, back in February. The advisory, which was issued last week, notes a bug that relates to […]