German Hacker Group States They Have Cracked Apple's iPhone 5S Fingerprint Scanner
German Hacker Group States They Have Cracked Apple's iPhone 5S fingerprint scanner
Win Bitcoins, booze and cash! Be the first to crack the iPhone's Touch ID fingerprint sensor...
A posting from Dark Reading about iPhone's Touch ID fingerprint sensor: The fingerprint sensor on Apple's new iPhone 5s could well be the device-within-a-devicethat brings biometrics into the everyday mainstream. (There's good and bad in that. The good news is that if you paid extra for a laptop, years ago, because it had a fingerprint scanner you […]
Shylock Malware Resurges, Targets Top U.S. Banks
A posting in Information Week in there security /attacks sections : Beware the latest version of the banking malware known as Shylock -- also called Caphaw -- which has been retooled to target customers of 24 different banks. Security firm Zscaler reported Wednesday that over the last month it's seen the number of Shylock infections […]
Snowden disclosures prompt warning on widely used computer security formula
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In the latest fallout from Edward Snowden's intelligence disclosures, a major U.S. computer security company warned thousands of customers on Thursday to stop using software that relies on a weak mathematical formula developed by the National Security Agency.
Windows Phone 8 earns US government security certification that protects sensitive data
Microsoft announced that their Windows Phone 8 earns key government security certification from the US, which would help boost its standing among US and Canadian government customers.
Hacker group found in China, linked to big cyberattacks: Symantec
Hacker group found in China, linked to big cyberattacks: Symantec
Take that, hackers! Quasar IV boasts hackproof Android greatness
An Interesting article in C/Net about Quasar IV boasts: The subject of cell phone security haunts every major mobile player, but none so defiantly throws down the gauntlet to data thieves like the smartphone startup QSAlpha and its Quasar IV "cipherphone." A self-funded project launched Tuesday through Kickstarter-like Web site Indiegogo, the Quasar IV runs on a security backbone […]
Phone and tablet unlocking - US government nudges it closer to law
A posting from Naked Security about Phone and tablet unlocking: US citizens are now one step closer to being able to do (more or less) what they want with their gadgets - at least as far as choosing a wireless carrier goes. On Thursday, six months after the White House publicly endorsed a citizens' petition to regain […]
Microsoft Issues Emergency 'Fix It' For IE Amid Attacks
A posting from Dark Reading in there Attacks and Breaches section: Security experts are urging users to apply newly released mitigations as a stop-gap while waiting for Microsoft to patch a newly discovered critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Microsoft rushed out a Fix It tool yesterday in lieu of a patch after reports surfaced that attackers […]