Network Security

Apple makes good on CEO’s promise to expand iPhone 5’s 4G carriers

iOS 6.1 patches 27 bugs, adds 36 LTE providers in U.S., Europe, Middle East

WhatsApp could face prosecution on poor privacy

Dutch and Canadian privacy commissioners conducted a yearlong investigation into the popular mobile app

Browser-hijacking malware talks to attackers using SPF email validation protocol

The technique makes malicious traffic harder to detect for firewalls and other network security systems, researcher says

Unseen, all-out cyber war on the U.S. has begun

Anonymous hits US government site, threatens release of secrets

Hack claimed the suicide of Aaron Swartz as its spark

Rising cyberthreats set backdrop for latest cybersecurity bill

Oracle’s Java security head: We will ‘fix Java,’ communicate better

Oracle is planning to step up its community outreach efforts around the programming language

Employees put critical infrastructure security at risk

Sweeping change needed to boost critical infrastructure security handcuffed by lack of cooperation between IT, grid operations workers

Backdoor accounts found in networking and security appliances from Barracuda Networks

Attackers can use the accounts to gain root access on the devices from certain IP address ranges, researchers say

Web server hackers install rogue Apache modules and SSH backdoors, researchers say

The original SSH binary files get replaced with credential-stealing versions, researchers warn