Owners of an HTC mobile phone running under Google's Android operating system might have their personal data exposed to applications that enjoy Internet access, a recent report explains.
Apparently, a new update from the handset vendor included a series of tools that collect data such as email addresses, rec... |
3 October 2011
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Opera has just announced the release of a new flavor of their Opera Mobile 11.1 browser for devices running under Google's Android operating system, with a series of bug fixes included inside, and with a resolved security issue as well.
Some of the enhancements included in the new version of the application... |
13 September 2011
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Dropbox is going through a security firestorm after it accidentally introduced a bug that allowed users to access other people's accounts without a password."Yesterday we made a code update at 1:54pm Pacific time that introduced a bug affecting our authentication mechanism. We discovered this at 5:41pm and a fix... |
21 June 2011
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The US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning advising companies and users to disable WebGL in their browsers because of recently disclosed security issues.An information security consultancy firm called Context has recently published a white paper about the security risks of WebGL, a relativ... |
11 May 2011
13:23 GMT |
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Motorola DROID 2, one of the high-end mobile phones that Motorola launched during the ongoing year on Verizon Wireless' airwaves, sports some security holes that enable one execute Google Voice Actions on the handset even when the handset is locked and a passcode is activated.It appears that the issue was spott... |
16 October 2010
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On Monday, software company Adobe has released an update for the much praised Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for Android, in an attempt to patch some security issues the software came to the market in the first place. According to the company, the new update is meant to resolve a security hole present in Adobe Flash Player... |
21 September 2010
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New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera is accused by her office's administrator of unethical behavior and possible law violations resulting from her laptop being infected with malware.Office Administrator Manny Vildasol used a secret camera to record how an IT staffer was trying to clean "158 viruses" out of... |
18 August 2010
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Citigroup, one of the largest financial services companies in the world, has released a new version of its U.S. mobile banking application for the iPhone in order to resolve a security flaw. The issue involved customers' account and payment information being saved in a hidden file on the device.The Citi Mobile a... |
27 July 2010
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A security breach in AT&T's web site has exposed the personal information of a great deal of the carrier's iPad 3G customers, a recent report shows. According to the news, a number of around 114,000 user accounts have been compromised, including those of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. Howev... |
10 June 2010
06:31 GMT |
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On November 27th, the Ubuntu developers announced the availability of a major security update for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS, 7.10, 8.04 LTS and 8.10 (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). The update patches nine security issues (see below for details) discovered in the Linux kernel packag... |
28 November 2008
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Core Security has issued a warning on "Multiple vulnerabilities in iCal." Classified as "remotely exploitable," the vulnerabilities in iCal "may allow un-authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems with (and potentially without) assistance from the end user of the application, or to repeat... |
22 May 2008
04:43 GMT |
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