A large number of apps in the Android Market have been found to contain a piece of malware known as DroidDream, a Trojan that not only is able to harvest sensitive data from an infected device, but also can break out of the Android sandbox and download additional malicious code to the phone from remote servers.
More than six months after reports of wide-scale compromises of accounts at Apple’s popular iTunes online store, there are fresh reports that suggest that the accounts of iTunes users are being used to make fraudulent purchases of music, games and other merchandise.
Google has acquired a small German security start-up called Zynamics, which is well-known in the security industry for its reverse-engineering and analysis tools.
Google has released version 9.0.597.107 of its Chrome browser, fixing 19 security vulnerabilities and paying $14,000 in rewards to researchers in the process.
Two new spyware programs, SW.SecurePhone and SW.Quieting, are targeting users of Android devices, mainly in the U.S., and could lead to serious data compromises, according to new research from NetQin Mobile.
Today’s Image of the Day comes from a film posted on YOUrban. The film is an exploration of the typically intangible landscape of WiFi signals. They built a WiFi measuring rod that displays strength of signal in a vertical alignment of light bars. As they moved the rod, they used long-exposure photography to light paint a cross-section of WiFi signal strength across various neighborhoods in Oslo where the extended nights of December create an optimal canvas for the light painting medium.
Embattled CEO Aaron Barr says he is stepping down from his post at HBGary Federal to allow the company to move on after an embarassing data breach.
The controversy over the hack of D.C. security firm HBGary burst into the spotlight last week when comedian Stephen Colbert weighed in on the back and forth between HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr and the online mischief making group Anonymous.
Web surfers frustrated with the task of managing a forest of user names and passwords have been flocking to LastPass in an effort to simplify. But now a a security researcher says that a security flaw in that company’s Web site could reveal sensitive account details.
Researchers have found a new piece of malware that’s designed to attack the Mac OS X platform, an occurrence that’s rare enough still that each new discovery is noted separately.
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