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Italian security researchers report that as many as 800,000 Chrome users had browser sessions hijacked after falling victim to phony Facebook messages that eventually led users to malware posing as a video plug-in.
DHS and the FBI issued a bulletin to emergency services personnel that out-of-date versions of Android on mobile devices poses a security risk.
A vulnerability in the BIND domain name system (DNS) software could give an attacker the ability to easily and reliably control queried name servers chosen by the most widely deployed DNS software on the Internet, according to new research presented at the Woot Conference in Washington D.C. today.
A research report on mobile security reveals that while BYOD policies may increase employee productivity, they also increase the number of vulnerable devices connecting to corporate networks.
In a critical security advisory issued over the weekend, the Tor Project told its users that they should seriously consider migrating out of Microsoft’s Windows operating system.
Bluebox Security CTO Jeff Forristal explains the disclosure timeline surrounding the Android Master Key vulnerability.
Las Vegas – In the last Black Hat briefing of the day Wednesday, German security researcher Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs demonstrated a SIM card attack that exploited sloppy encryption and gave the researcher root access to a type of SIM card built into billions of mobile devices.
A 213-foot luxury yacht veered off course while cruising in the Mediterranean Sea this summer after a radio navigation research team led by global positioning systems expert Todd Humphreys of the University of Texas Austin built a custom-made device capable of overriding the ship’s GPS receivers with spoofed signals.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed an Amicus Brief to a United States District Court yesterday that could impact rulings around forced device decryption and whether that is an act of self-incrimination, and is protected by the Fifth Amendment.
The United States is no longer the most obese country in the world (thanks to Mexico), but it still ranks No.1 as the globally preeminent source of Web-based attacks, according to the Imperva Web Application Attack Report.
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