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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
A partnership announced today merges LastPass’s credential management services with PwnedList’s credential monitoring services. The companies said “credential management and credential monitoring [are] natural complements” and that the move will bolster password security for LastPass end users.
Google has issued a security update for its Chrome operating system on Android devices, resolving seven medium-risk vulnerabilities and paying out a total of $3,500 in rewards to two researchers.
With the release event for Apple’s newest iPhone model going on, quite literally, as I type, it comes as no surprise that scammers are exploiting the vast anticipation for the iPhone 5.
The Microsoft security team shipped just two bulletins – resolving as many holes – in the September, 2012 edition of Patch Tuesday.The patches will supply fixes for two ‘important’ rated bugs, one in Microsoft Developer Tools and the other in Micrososft Server Software. If unpatched, both could lead to elevation of privileges.
A strain of malware called Backdoor.LV that uses a custom protocol over port 80 to communicate with its command and control server has been consistently increasing its reach since May, according to a report from FireEye.
Cellphone owners now account for 88 percent of the U.S. population, of which some 43 percent say they download applications on their phones. Among these ‘app users,’ 57 percent told the Pew Internet and American Life Project that they have either uninstalled existing applications or made the decision to not install an application altogether after determining the amount of personal information required as a permission to install.
An “unknown virus” has shutdown the entire computer network of the world’s second largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) producer, RasGas, according to news reports.
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) posted a broad agency announcement [PDF] recently, calling on contractors to submit concept papers detailing technological demonstrations of ‘cyberspace warfare operations’ (CWO) capabilities.
Considering the availability of browser-based password management and auto-fill systems and the intuition that you should never put all your eggs in one basket, do the three major browsers offer robust enough security features to justify trusting them with your passwords and, in some cases, credit card information?
Siemens subsidiary RuggedCom’s Rugged Operating System (ROS) contains a vulnerability that could give an attacker the ability to decrypt SSL traffic between RuggedCom networking equipment and end-users, according to an ICS-CERT alert.
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