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Blackberry releases first security fixes for new Z10 smartphone

2013-06-13/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

Blackberry releases first security fixes for new Z10 smartphone

US charges eight for cybercrime targeting banks, government

2013-06-13/0 Comments/in General Security, Hack/by fdesir

An interesting articles from NBC NEWs in there Technology section: Federal prosecutors in New Jersey on Wednesday unveiled criminal charges against eight people accused of trying to steal at least $15 million from U.S. customers in an international cybercrime scheme targeting accounts at 15 financial institutions and government agencies. U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said the […]

Blackberry releases first security fixes for new Z10 smartphone

2013-06-13/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

Blackberry releases first security fixes for new Z10 smartphone

US charges eight for cybercrime targeting banks, government

2013-06-13/0 Comments/in General Security, Hack/by fdesir

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Blackberry releases first security fixes for new Z10 smartphone

2013-06-13/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

A posting from Naked Security onBlackberry releases first security fixes for new Z10 smartphone:

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 a new mobile operating system with Flash support, knowing full well the number of vulnerabilities and in the wild attacks against it?

Apple was first to shun Flash while some Android handset makers bragged about Flash support. For about a month. Then Adobe pulled the plug on its own Android package.

This seemed to have resolved the issue and HTML5 was the winner for mobile interactive content. “Winner by default,” or so I thought.

Now you might think it is a “nice to have” so long as Blackberry keeps it up-to-date and makes it easy to apply to your device.Adobe released Flash fixes yesterday too, right?

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US charges eight for cybercrime targeting banks, government

2013-06-13/0 Comments/in General Security, Hack/by fdesir

U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said the conspiring hackers gained unauthorized access to computer networks, diverted customer funds to bank accounts and pre-paid debit cards and used “cashers” to make ATM withdrawals and fraudulent purchases in Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and elsewhere.

Among the entities targeted were Automatic Data Processing Inc, Citigroup, eBay’s PayPal, JPMorgan Chase & Co, TD Ameritrade Holding Corp and the U.S. Department of Defense, Fishman said. The charges come as law enforcement officials crack down on cybercrime heists. This has included arrests announced last week of 11 people in the United States, United Kingdom and Vietnam in a worldwide credit card fraud ring, and a May raid on Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rica company that provided a “virtual currency” system to move money without using traditional banking.

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