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on : Monday, 12 Dec, 2011

Yahoo! adds 2-step verification for account security

Yahoo! have now joined Google in adding 2-step verification for account security although it is only ‘beta’ right now. This means, after you login to your account with your password, you will have to verify the code sent to your mobile device or will have to answer a security question. It’s about time too. I personally believe the 2-step verification should be set as default for any cloud-based account. Yahoo! users will have to enable the second sign-in verification feature from their Yahoo! account information page. You will be asked to enter
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on : Thursday, 8 Dec, 2011

Fake Verizon email with malicious ZIP in circulation

Microsoft is warning users about a fake Verizon notification which is carrying a Trojan. The email appears to come from Verizon and attempts to make the customer feel a sense of urgency by claiming it contains crucial account information from verizon Wireless. The fake email has a ZIP file attached named 'Verizon-Wireless-Account-StatusNotification_#######.zip' (random numbers are used in the name). This same malware attack vector is being used in fake critical updates for Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe X
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on : Thursday, 8 Dec, 2011

Google Code Playground XSS vulnerability

Two security researchers have identified an XSS in Google Code. Proof Of Concept: Just go to http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/ and then click on edit HTML after that remove all the codes and type this script : "<img src="<img src=search"/onerror=alert("XSS")//">"
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on : Thursday, 8 Dec, 2011

Brazilian banking Trojan disguised as Microsoft anti-virus software

A Trojan (identified as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.VB.aoff) is targeting Windows-based systems by removing built-in AV software and clearing a path for cybercriminals to silently steal online banking credentials. The Trojan affects 'ntldr' the default boot loader in Windows.The Trojan
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on : Thursday, 8 Dec, 2011

Facebook fixes photo privacy security flaw

Facebook has this week (w/c 5th Dec) patched a vulnerability that allowed any user to view any other user’s private photos. Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook account was compromised and a total of thirteen photos were downloaded and posted
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on : Wednesday, 7 Dec, 2011

Hakin9 Mobile 1/11 (1)

Android Insecurities by Joey Peloquin The article will begin with a focus on what the author calls Offensive Mobile Forensics, an analysis technique that mimics the approach an attacker would take in the event they acquired a lost or stolen
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on : Wednesday, 7 Dec, 2011

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on : Tuesday, 6 Dec, 2011

Carrier IQ tracking mobile behaviour – spyware?

Carrier IQ isn't spyware as such. It does indeed collect and map geo-location and device (T-Mobile and other carriers in the US have confirmed the app is resident on some of their devices) specific data which includes
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on : Tuesday, 6 Dec, 2011

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on : Monday, 5 Dec, 2011

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on : Monday, 5 Dec, 2011

Reverse proxy flaw in Apache patch CVE-2011-3368

A security researcher has found that an old patch CVE-2011-3368 can still be exploited by a crafted request that could exploit a fully pateched Apache Web Server (even if Apache 2.2.21 with CVE-2011-3368 patch is applied) which
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on : Monday, 5 Dec, 2011

Skype flaw can track users’ location and P2P activity

Security researchers have found a security flaw in Skype. The flaw found several properties of Skype that can track not only a users' locations over time, but also their P2P file activity. The researchers also found that
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