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Dev Dumped After Laying Bare iOS Vulnerability November 08, 2011 
Apple has reportedly banned noted hacker Charlie Miller from its developer program for a year, apparently in response to an app Miller wrote on the iTunes App Store that exploits a zero-day vulnerability he spotted in iOS. Miller did notify Apple of the flaw three weeks ago, the developer tweeted.
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Microsoft Issues Fix to Keep Duqu at Bay November 07, 2011 
Microsoft on Friday released a temporary fix for a Microsoft Word vulnerability that allows the Duqu worm to attack PCs. The flaw, in TrueType font parsing, could let an attacker run arbitrary code in kernel mode, installing programs; view, change or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights, Microsoft said.
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The Social Phenom That Was This Year's Dreamforce September 12, 2011 
At the biggest Salesforce.com event to date, Dreamforce '11, vendors had ample opportunities to strut their stuff. In fact, more than 46,000 people -- many of them very socially engaged -- registered this year. "In less than a decade, Dreamforce has become the largest conference in the enterprise software industry," said Fergus Griffin, vice president of product marketing for Salesforce.com.
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The Apache Web Server's Not-So-Secret Weakness August 30, 2011 
If you thought the hacks by Anonymous and AntiSec were bad, boy, are you in for a revelation. This past week brings news that the Apache Web server -- the one that powers the majority of the Internet and most websites -- has a vulnerability that can be exploited with relatively little effort.
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Fighting the Good Global Cybercrime Fight: Q&A With Security Guru Mikko Hypponen, Part 2 August 24, 2011 
Mikko Hypponen has spent the past 20-plus years studying malicious software, including everything from "Brain" -- the first PC virus, dating back to 1986 -- all the way up to Stuxnet and today's most sophisticated global malware. He's widely considered one of the world's foremost experts on information security, and he's played a key role in taking down numerous international rings of cybercriminals.
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Apple's Golden Hoard August 03, 2011 
Apple's recent iCloud announcement was merely the icing on the cake of a week of positive news coming from Cupertino. For one thing, iPhone sales made Apple the world's largest smartphone vendor in Q2 of 2011, according to Strategy Analytics. For another, news has emerged that Apple has a cash balance of nearly $76 billion.
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Security Wonks Urge iPhoners to Patch 'Em Up July 29, 2011 
The iOS vulnerability for which Apple issued a security patch on July 25 is very severe, according to security experts who are warning iOS device users to apply that patch as soon as possible. The vulnerability lies in a failure to validate SSL certificates correctly. That lets hackers use a tool called "sslsniff" to take over victims' iOS devices by using fake certificates.
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iOS Jailbreakers Dig Up a Wormy Little Exploit July 08, 2011
Zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple's iOS that are used to jailbreak iPhones and iPads could also be used to access confidential information, according to the German Federal Office for Information Security. The bug, exposed by a team of hackers at JailbreakMe.com, exploits vulnerabilities on PDFs.
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iCloud's Dark Security Lining July 08, 2011 
Apple's announcement of its upcoming iCloud service has sparked a flurry of excitement in the industry. Some expect the iCloud will help Apple keep customers closer to its bosom -- make them "stickier," in analystspeak. Others think the iCloud will give a boost to cloud computing. The iCloud will automate the backup and storage of data -- music, photos and what-have-you -- and make it easy to set up new iDevices.
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iPad Surfers Rolling In July 06, 2011
The Anonymous hacker community's AntiSec project gave Apple a love tap for the July 4 holiday and, in essence, warned Cupertino to brush up on its security measures. "Not being so serious ... Apple could be target too," the group tweeted. "But don't worry, we are busy elsewhere."
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Will WebKit Be iOS' Achilles' Heel? June 17, 2011 
Apple recently issued a new beta version of its forthcoming Mac OS X 10.6.8 update to developers, reported to contain fixes for the Mac Defender malware and its variants. Cupertino and the Mac Defender clan have been trading shots since May, with the authors of the malware circumventing Apple's efforts to stomp out their attacks.
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New Malware Variant Jukes Apple's Bug Fix June 01, 2011 
As promised, Apple on Tuesday released a security update to combat MacDefender, a type of fake antivirus malware that had targeted the Mac OS X platform over the last few weeks. On Wednesday, however, hackers apparently managed to figure out an end-run around its solution. Apple's fix updates its malware definition list daily, and it searches for and removes known variants of the MacDefender malware.
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New Mac Malware: Passwords? We Don't Need No Stinking Passwords! May 26, 2011 
The newest strain of malware aimed at the Mac OS X platform doesn't require a user password to install and spread, according to a warning from security company Intego. Like a similar scam that arose weeks ago, this new version of malware promises visitors of certain websites a free security scan.
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The Sony Horror Hacker Show May 07, 2011 
Sony's great big data leak could go down in history as the company's messiest mess of all time -- even worse than the CD rootkit disaster. Last week, we learned that hackers had broken into Sony's PlayStation Network and made off with a bunch of user data. Names, passwords and birth dates were definitely leaked, and Sony wasn't able to guarantee people's credit card numbers were safe either.
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Scareware Gives Mac Users the Heebie-Jeebies May 02, 2011
Scareware has apparently made its way to the Apple Mac platform. Intego, which specializes in creating antivirus software for the Apple Mac platform, warned Monday that a fake antivirus program called "MACDefender" is attacking Apple Macs. Scareware in general is a common tactic used by online scammers, and it's been seen many times in the past to fool users of Windows PCs.
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iPhone Security: Priceless March 11, 2011 
The Android operating system continues to grow in popularity and the options it offers also have grown tremendously. Diversity can be a wonderful thing, but it may be coming at a cost in the form of a security risk. That's right -- everything you do on your phone is risky if you don't play by the rules. So what are the rules?
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