Invincea yesterday announced a $21.4m contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) for a secure version of Android phones and tablets.
Hackers crack CAPTCHA website security measures
Hackers are able to bypass CAPTCHA security measures using computer-assisted tools and crowdsourcing to gain access to personal and financial information, Imperva warned in its latest Hacker Intelligence Report.
Euro 2012 is the lure; pharmacy spam scam the result
Spammers and scammers use international events and disasters as the lure for their ware. Euro 2012 provides both: an international event littered with individual disasters when national teams are dismissed.
Information security risks lurk in oft-neglected places
A new study by Kroll Advisory Solutions highlights the information security risks lurking in oft-neglected places, such as voicemail, conference calls, and even the mailroom.
FDA warns about software flaws in medical devices
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found that software flaws in medical devices are leading to compromises of those devices.
USAID gets detention after failing FISMA test
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is working to improve its network security monitoring in response to a failing grade on the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) scorecard, according to Jerry Horton, the agency’s chief…
PDFs wrapped in XDP evade anti-virus scans
“Security researcher Brandon Dixon has discovered a way to bypass the Antivirus detection for malicious PDFs,” writes eHackingNews, “using the XML Data Package(XDP) format.” It goes on to add that “opening the malicious XDP file can result in Adobe Rea…
Microsoft increases hackers’ exploit development costs
Jonathan Ness, security development manager of Security Science – part of the Trustworthy Computing group – claimed that Microsoft are looking to reduce or eliminate exploit based attacks by increasing the cost required to develop attacks – specificall…
Microsoft’s Bill Harmon on tackling child exploitation online: We can win
On June 20th at the Microsoft HQ in Seattle, Bill Harmon, associate general counsel, Microsoft digital crimes unit, presented at the TwC International Media Campus Tour on child sexual exploitation online. While he assessed that the problems we have to…
Kayak.com investigates search engine glitch that exposed users’ personal data
Online travel website Kayak.com is investigating a security breach in which personal information of users was available through its search engine.