Adobe releases critical security updates for Reader, Flash Player and ColdFusion
Adobe has released scheduled security updates for its Reader, Acrobat, Flash Player and ColdFusion products on Tuesday in order to fix many critical vulnerabilities, including one that is already actively exploited by attackers. read more more…‘Next’ iPhone display production to begin
A Japan-based report indicates that production of at least one key component for the next iPhone will begin next month. Sharp will begin volume production in June of the display “panel” for the “next” iPhone model at its Kameyama plant in Mie prefecture, according to a report in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, a major Japanese industrial […] more…Sony Is Screwing Up Game Streaming on PlayStation 4
When Sony announced its next-generation game console PlayStation 4 back in February, one of the most unique features it talked up was the “Share” button. Right there on the control pad was a button that would instantly begin streaming a live video of whatever the player was doing at the time. Tags: Sony Playstation Games more…Supply chain 2013: Stop playing whack-a-mole with security threats
IT can never take all the risk out of a supply chain, but it can help organizations minimize their vulnerability in a world of new threats. read more more…How the FBI cracked a "sextortion" plot against pro poker players
At 8:05am on the morning of December 1, 2010, an FBI search warrant team swarmed up to a Silicon Valley home on an unusual misson: find the “sextortionist” who had been blackmailing pro poker players over the Internet. One agent pounded on the door and shouted out, “FBI!” Movement was heard inside, but no one […] more…Google tightens up Play Store policy, officially bans "off-market" updates…
Google has made a number of changes to its Android Play Store ecosystem recently. There’s now a rudimentary anti-virus provided with the OS, a ban on ad blockers, and, most recently, an official policy on sneaky “off-market” updates… more…Twitter plays cat-and-mouse with hackers of the Syrian Electronic Army
Twitter’s security team appears to be playing whack-a-mole with a group of hackers who have made a name for themselves hijacking the accounts of high profile media organisations. more…Money can’t buy privacy in Google Play store, study shows
Both paid and free apps in the Google Play store harvest the same amount of private information from Android phones, a researcher discovered. read more more…IRS’s big data play built on shaky foundations
The IRS is scaring taxpayers silly this season with boasts about its Big Data prowess and 'robo audits.' But recent reports suggest the agency is struggling to keep its IT operations afloat. read more more…One-Click Fraud Variant on Google Play in Japan Steals User Data
Last week McAfee Labs reported a series of “one-click fraud” malware on Google Play in Japan. We have been monitoring this fraudulent activity and have found more than 120 additional variants on Google Play since the previous report. The malicious developers upload five or six applications per account using three to five accounts every night, […] more…Ongoing Google Play Attacks Plague Japanese with Variation on One-Click Fraud
In what may be the biggest security-related incident on Google Play this year, multiple Trojans targeting Japanese users were discovered carrying the strain of Android one-click fraud. McAfee Mobile Research has already identified multiple developer accounts that were used to spread the malware and confirmed that more than 80 applications of this type existed on […] more…Adobe Flash Player CVE-2013-0633 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Type: Vulnerability. Adobe Flash Player is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability; fixes are available. more…Apple files patent for iPhone with wraparound display
Apple, whose iPhone has been criticized for having a display that’s relatively small when compared with smartphones such as the Samsung S4 and HTC One, has filed a patent application that proposes a novel solution: a display that wraps around the entire handset. Tags: Apple iPhone more…Anatomy of a bug: Battlefield: Play4Free hole allows dodgy updates to go unnoticed
A pair of Maltese vulnerability researchers have found a security hole in Battlefield: Play4Free from digital games giant EA. The vulnerability abuses the fact that different versions of Windows deal differently with erroneous input to the function used to start new processes. more…JPMorgan Chase glitch displays customers as zero
Customers of JPMorgan Chase reported seeing zero balances in their accounts both online and on mobile, and speculated that the bank’s systems had been hacked into. The bank however clarified late Monday that it was having a technology problem regarding customers’ balance information that it was working to resolve. Tags: JPMorgan Industry News more…Hackers open up offline play, modding tools for SimCity
EA and Maxis’ claim that it would take “significant engineering work” to make a workable offline version of SimCity took another hit today. Hackers have released modding tools that disable the game’s periodic server checks without breaking the simulation. The tools also unlock other features not in the final game. Tags: Games Hackers more…More information
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