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Article | 15/11/2012 New Zealand Herald falls victim to XSS prank
The New Zealand Herald's website had spinning photos and backward text on Friday morning after it evidently was the victim of an amusing cross-site sc...
Article | 14/11/2012 Skype blocks password resets after trivial account hijacking flaw made public
Skype has disabled the account password reset option on its website following reports that the feature can be abused to hijack Skype accounts if the a...
Article | 9/11/2012 Cisco recommends McAfee switch for IronPort customers hit by Sophos flaws
Cisco Systems has warned customers about critical vulnerabilities in the Sophos antivirus engine included in its Cisco IronPort email and Web security...
Article | 9/11/2012 Researchers find vulnerability in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Researchers have found a serious vulnerability in the game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3," and another in the CryEngine 3 graphics platform on which...
Article | 8/11/2012 Zero-day PDF exploit reportedly defeats Adobe Reader sandbox protection
Cybercriminals are using a new PDF exploit that bypasses the sandbox security features in Adobe Reader X and XI, in order to install banking malware o...
Article | 8/11/2012 Siemens industrial software targeted by Stuxnet is still full of holes
Software made by Siemens and targeted by the Stuxnet malware is still full of other dangerous vulnerabilities, according to Russian researchers whose ...
Article | 6/11/2012 Researcher finds critical vulnerabilities in Sophos antivirus product
Security researcher Tavis Ormandy discovered critical vulnerabilities in the antivirus product developed by U.K.-based security firm Sophos and advise...
Article | 2/11/2012 What's the price of a new Windows 8 zero-day vulnerability?
It's not exactly the type of advertisement most people would understand.
Article | 1/11/2012 Huawei to meet with security researcher who disclosed vulnerabilities in its products
Chinese networking and telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei plans to send a team of engineers to Germany in order to meet with Felix Lindn...
Article | 30/10/2012 Irked by cyberspying, Georgia outs Russia-based hacker -- with photos
In one of the photos, the dark-haired, bearded hacker is peering into his computer's screen, perhaps puzzled at what's happening. Minutes later, he cu...
Article | 29/10/2012 Critical remote code execution vulnerability fixed in Exim email server
Developers of the popular Exim email server software released an emergency update on Friday to address a critical vulnerability that could allow attac...
Article | 26/10/2012 Critical flaw found in software used by many industrial control systems
CoDeSys, a piece of software running on industrial control systems (ICS) from over 200 vendors contains a vulnerability that allows potential attacker...
Article | 25/10/2012 Open DNS resolvers increasingly abused to amplify DDoS attacks, report says
Open and misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to ...
Article | 24/10/2012 Adobe patches six critical vulnerabilities in Shockwave Player
Adobe has fixed six critical vulnerabilities in Shockwave Player that could potentially be exploited by attackers to execute malicious code, via the r...
Article | 23/10/2012 CyanogenMod developers remove code that logged device screen-lock patterns
The development team of CyanogenMod, a popular community-built Android firmware, discovered and removed a line of code that posed potential security r...

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