Hackers Pair SnapChat Numbers with Users on Mass Scale
Researchers posted the details of two bugs in SnapChat after the company failed to address them over a period of four months.
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Feedburner Sub-Domain Hosting Trojan Dropper
The Feedburner RSS management platform is hosting a Trojan that redirects users to a series of malicious sites.
Researcher Says Samsung Knox Container is Vulnerable
An Israeli security researcher from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Cyber Security Labs claims to have uncovered a serious security flaw in Samsung Knox.
Microsoft claims that Turkish machines encounter more malware than computers in any other country in the world.
The domain registrar and Web-hosting company Namecheap has fixed a cross site request forgery vulnerability in its DNS setup page.
A presidentially appointed, five member panel issued a more than 300-page report yesterday calling for nearly 50 recommendations for changes in the way that the National Security Agency conducts its increasingly-public and sweeping surveillance programs.
Apple updated its Mac OS X Mavericks platform yesterday with a number of security fixes for the Safari browser and WebKit layout engine.
On November 4, someone broke into the offices of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and stole two laptops containing the sensitive information of more than 800,000 members.
Google has removed a pivotal privacy feature from its Android operating system that gave users the ability to deny permissions in and regulate information collection attempts by installed applications.
The makers of a popular Android flashlight application have settled with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations that they covertly tracked the locations of the “Brightest Flashlight Free” users and sold that information to advertising firms.
