Chinese telecom gear maker ZTE, which produces the Android based ScoreM smartphone, confirms that there is a security hole in one of its models. The hole, usually called a backdoor, allows anyone with the handsets hardwired password gain root access to any Score phone. This security hole is described by a researcher to be “highly unusual.”
The US Navy has taken initiatives to fund a project to develop web applications to cut down maritime piracy. The web applications are aimed to help multinational navy forces, responsible for policing the oceans, combat piracy in a better way. The project would be funded through the Office of Naval Research (ONR) of USA. A grant amounting $1 million has been sanctioned already.
Kaspersky Lab is one of the well known anti-virus vendors around the world. That is precisely, when it says something about security vulnerabilities, we have to take it with a grain of salt since the company has a huge financial stake in having us believe that every platform needs an anti-virus, and preferably one by Kaspersky. Recently, Computing reported that the company had claimed that it was working on improving OS X security in collaboration with Apple.
Apple has always been hailed by users to be the safest OS compared to Windows and Linux. But it seems, the security of Mac OS systems was over-glorified. Digital security software maker Kaspersky Lab’s CEO believes that Apple is ’10 years’ behind Microsoft on security. After the widespread Flashback malware attack on Mac devices recently, users should take notice.
It is interesting to note how some very crucial security vulnerabilities in software are found a little too late. For instance, Samba just announced that it has now patched a remote code execution exploit which was present in all versions of Samba between 3.0.x and 3.6.3. This essentially means that this vulnerability is at least five years old since Samba released the 3.0.25 version as back as 2007.
We reported a while ago that a certain malware named Flashback Trojan had made silent encroaches into Apple machines around the world and was able to infect some 600,000 Macs around the globe. Now, we have been told that Apple is working on a tool that will be able to detect the malware and then remove it from the user’s machine.
Cyber-security competition is a great one to be held partly because not only does it show how much computer-geeks are sharp in their skills but also when it is held amongst the young teenage kids, then it means that they also get a lesson in cyber-security as a by-product. Recently, a competition held in Britain by the government’s intelligence organization GCHQ brought forth a teenage student, named Jonathan Millican, as the champion, according to TG Daily. He is just 19 years of age and is a first-year computer science student at Cambridge University.
In order to protect users against attacks and to make them aware of the real-world risks associated with security vulnerabilities in its products, Adobe has added “priority ratings” to its security bulletins. Through this there will be a difference prominent between security vulnerabilities that are being targeted by live exploits, security flaws that are historically at elevated risk and also the vulnerabilities that they may be theoretically dangerous but are never targeted by attackers. This will make users more secure and up-to-date about what they could face harm from.
Because there’s so much talk around hacker activity, here’s another bit of information from the same sphere. NASA seems to be one of the most popular destinations for hacker “vacations”. Apparently the agency had to deal with 5,408 security lapses in 2010 and 2011. The most alarming breach is dated back to March 2011 when a certain laptop containing the algorithms that were used to command the International Space Station (ISS) went missing, never to be seen again.
We’re hearing more and more hacking reports these days of unknown groups attacking government websites or even their own supporters. But this new attack cuts deep into the heritage of world music. Apparently Sony disclosed information according to which Michael Jackson’s entire back catalogue has been stolen by Internet hackers.
A couple of days ago, the team of lawyers who represent US Government filed a request in New Zealandese court for the extradition of MegaUpload founder and his associates. KimDotCom and his associates Mathias Ortmann, Bran van der Kolk and Finn Batato have been accused of breaching copyright laws and causing damages in value of half billion US dollars.
Recently, the Audiencia Nacional urged European Court of Justice to rule on Spanish citizens’ privacy rights when it comes to search engines. More precisely, the Spain’s highest court requests that Google users have the personal data deleted from the search engines. The European Court of Justice will have the mission to decide if the Spanish Court request is lawful or not.
WikiLeaks is one of the most controversial organizations that exist in the wide world of web. It has made its purpose to publish submissions of private, secret and classified media which the staff receives from anonymous sometimes shady sources, news leaks and whistleblowers. The website was launched back in 2006 and at that time claimed to be in possession of a 1.2 million documents.
The Anonymous group has been gaining a lot of popularity lately, especially because of the Megaupload campaign (dubbed the Operation Megaupload (#OpMegaupload)) which found the group hacking mercifully through websites of institutions who had a part to play in the whole scandal turned legal matter. We’re talking about the Department of Justice website being hacked along with numerous record label sites. But weirdly enough the Anonymous group doesn’t seem to spare even its own members.
The FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann recently said while addressing at the University of San Francisco that due to a recent Supreme Court ruling has asked for a “sea change” within the U.S. Justice Department since the agency is disabling some 3,000 GPS tracking devices installed under the vehicles to monitor their movements. According to Digital Trends, in some of these cases, FBI had to ask for permission to track these devices in order to switch them off. The FBI surveillance is the strongest and there is no doubt about it.
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Copyright© 2009-2012 TheTechJournal.com | All Right Reserved. Privacy Policy | About - - | |||||
CDN By MaxCDN Powered By |
|||||
|
|
|
