Tuesday, March 25th, 2014
It’s been well publicized that on April 8th, 2014 Microsoft discontinues product support for Windows XP. Released in 2001, the support policy for the life of Windows XP soon followed in October 2002. In September 2007, we announced that support for Windows XP would be extended an additional two years ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
A source code mistake in the GnuTLS library an open-source software building block used in a large number of different Linux distributions to handle secure Internet connections could prove a serious threat to the privacy of Linux users, as developers rush to patch the vulnerability.
Nikos Mavrogiannopolous, the developer of GnuTLS, ...
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Saturday, February 22nd, 2014
A major flaw in Apple Inc software for mobile devices could allow hackers to intercept email and other communications that are meant to be encrypted, the company said on Friday, and experts said Mac computers were even more exposed.
If attackers have access to a mobile user's network, such as by ...
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Friday, February 21st, 2014
Tripwire has analyzed the security provided by the most popular wireless routers used in many small and home offices and found that 80 percent of Amazon’s top 25 best-selling SOHO wireless router models have security vulnerabilities.
Of these vulnerable models, 34 percent have publicly documented exploits that make it relatively simple ...
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Thursday, January 30th, 2014
Usernames and passwords of some of Yahoo's email customers have been stolen and used to gather personal information about people those Yahoo mail users have recently corresponded with, the company said Thursday.
Yahoo didn't say how many accounts have been affected. Yahoo is the second-largest email service worldwide, after Google's Gmail, ...
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