Malware

Site hosting leaked celebrity data goes offline

Not before leaking alleged credit report and personal information of CIA director John Brennan

Researchers find vulnerability in EA’s Origin platform

The flaw allows attackers to abuse special URL protocol in order to force users' games to run malicious code

3G and 4G USB modems are a security threat, researcher says

Researchers showed how to attack 3G and 4G USB modems at Black Hat Europe

Apple updates Mountain Lion, patches Safari

OS X 10.8.3 adds Boot Camp support for Windows 8

Security appliances are riddled with serious vulnerabilities, researcher says

Companies should not assume that security products are implicitly secure, the researcher said

Security pros pan and praise Microsoft’s plans on updating Modern apps in Windows 8, RT

Experts like the on-the-fly updating of apps, but the alerts ... not so much

Researchers resurrect and improve CRIME attack against SSL

New techniques bypass existing mitigations and make the attack easier to pull off

FinFisher spyware seen targeting victims in Vietnam, Ethiopia

New research finds the surveillance spyware is spreading but may be used to spy on activists

Java’s security problems unlikely to be resolved soon, researchers say

Security experts think Oracle should have acted sooner to strengthen Java against attacks

Apple patent targets social network stalkers and spammers