Facebook backtracks on address and phone data sharing

Facebook backtracks on address and phone data sharing


Facebook backtracks on address and phone data sharing

Posted: 18 Jan 2011 08:12 AM PST

It seems that enough people have objected to Facebook's announcement about the imminent change regarding permissions for for address and mobile number that the social network decided to put the plan o...

ICQ's critical flaw allows attackers to serve malicious software update

Posted: 18 Jan 2011 07:35 AM PST

ICQ - the popular instant messaging application - has a gaping security hole that can allow attackers to execute malicious code on the targeted system, says researcher Daniel Seither. The flaw is ...

Microsoft releases Attack Surface Analyzer tool

Posted: 18 Jan 2011 06:50 AM PST

Attack Surface Analyzer is the same tool used by Microsoft's internal product teams to catalogue changes made to the operating system by the installation of new software. The tool takes snapshots...

Unsecured IP cameras accessible to everyone

Posted: 18 Jan 2011 06:34 AM PST

In the last couple of decades, we have become so accustomed to the idea that the public portion of our everyday life is watched and recorded - in stores, on the street, in institutions - that we often...

Most significant security developments of 2010

Posted: 18 Jan 2011 05:47 AM PST

Security news during the last months of 2010 have been dominated by WikiLeaks and the politically motivated online attacks carried out by its opponents and supporters. Mikko Hypponen, Chief Researc...

Vulnerabilities in the Boonana Trojan increase the danger

Posted: 18 Jan 2011 05:32 AM PST

First spotted almost three months ago, the Boonana Trojan stood out because of its capability to infect both computer running Windows and those running Mac OS X. The Trojan nestled itself in the syste...

A test of 13 intrusion prevention systems

Posted: 18 Jan 2011 05:23 AM PST

NSS Labs released its network IPS comparative group test report for the fourth quarter of 2010. In the year since NSS Labs' last IPS test, attackers have refined their strategy and have increased b...

Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS

Posted: 18 Jan 2011 05:14 AM PST

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Cisco IOS, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions and by malicious people to cause a DoS, according to Secunia. ...

Virtual security in the real world

Posted: 18 Jan 2011 05:00 AM PST

What do the key IT security thought leaders - the experts that you rely on right now to help you secure all of your critical company data - really think about the current landscape of virtualization s...

Backup, deduplication and storage in one appliance

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 09:03 PM PST

Symantec announced the NetBackup 5200 appliance series to help customers expand their data protection infrastructure with an easy to deploy, all-in-one hardware and software backup solution that integ...

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