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Microsoft’s latest ‘Scroogled’ ad attacks Android with privacy fears
Author: Jenny Zhao
Microsoft’s anti-Google campaign is getting a fresh revival this week with a new focus on Google’s Android app store. After directly attacking Gmail and Google Shopping, Microsoft is now attempting to spread fear over Google’s policy of supplying the name, email address, and neighborhood of users who purchase apps on Google Play. In two fresh videos posted to the Scroogled site, Microsoft attempts to convince users to switch to Bing and Windows Phone over Android.
“If you can’t trust their app store, maybe you can’t trust them for anything,” says a narrator in one particular video, suggesting users try Bing. Another focuses on trying to push Windows Phones. The campaign centers on Google’s policy of providing basic information to…
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Obama will reportedly introduce cybersecurity executive order in wake of recent attacks
Author: Margo Tipton
Bloomberg is reporting that the White House plans to introduce an executive order on cybersecurity sometime after next week’s State of the Union address. The order, which has been in the works for months at this point, would arrive after several high-profile attacks have highlighted the threat posed by online attacks. Just last week, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times revealed they’d been the victims of attacks — thought to have originated in China — while Twitter announced it could have had as many as 250,000 user accounts compromised.
According to the report, the order will set up a set of voluntary cybersecurity standards that companies operating important US infrastructure will be able to participate in. Federal…
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No Comments »Microsoft patches critical Office vulnerability amid ‘limited, targeted’ attacks
Author: Tristan Richards
Microsoft is releasing a security update to patch a critical vulnerability in the ActiveX controls included in all 32-bit versions of Office, among other products. If exploited with a malicious document or webpage, the vulnerability can allow attackers to execute remote code on their targets’ systems, and according to Microsoft, “limited, targeted attacks” using malicious RTF email attachments have been spotted in the wild.
The security update, MS12-027, patches the vulnerability by disabling the ActiveX control in question and swapping it with a new one. It comes at the same time as five other updates, three of which are labeled critical (they could be used to propagate a worm), but due to the documented attacks, MS12-027 is the…
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No Comments »Major ISPs agree to FCC’s code of conduct on botnets, DNS attacks
Author: Anthony Kristo
In a statement, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski said that these practices “identify smart, practical, voluntary solutions that will materially improve the cyber security of commercial networks and bolster the broader endeavors of our federal partners.” The industry apparently agrees, as heavyweights like AT&T, CenturyLink, Comcast, Cox, Sprint, Time Warner Cable, T-Mobile and Verizon have already signed on. For the FCC’s full statement, check out the source link below.
Major ISPs agree to FCC’s code of conduct on botnets, DNS attacks originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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PSA: Google Wallet vulnerable to ‘brute-force’ PIN attacks (video)
Author: Jon Mitchell
Security hounds over at zvelo have discovered a vulnerability in Google Wallet that means your precious PIN can be “easily revealed.” Digging through the app’s code and using Google’s open resources to reveal its contents, they uncovered a piratical treasure trove of data: unique user IDs, Google account information, and the PIN stored as a SHA256 hex-encoded string. Since this string is known to carry four digits, it only takes a “trivial” brute-force attack involving a maximum of 10,000 calculations to decode it. To prove their point, the researchers made a Wallet Cracker app — demoed after the break — that does the job quicker than you can say “unexpected overdraft.”
Google has been receptive to these findings, but its attempts at a fix have so far been hampered by the need to coordinate with the banks, since changing the way the PIN is stored could also change which agency is responsible for its security. In the meantime, zvelo advises that there are some measures users can take themselves, aside from putting a protective hand over their pockets: refrain from rooting your phone, enable your lock screen, disable USB debugging, enable Full Disk Encryption and keep your handset up-to-date.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in.]
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PSA: Google Wallet vulnerable to ‘brute-force’ PIN attacks (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Judge attacks Oracle’s ‘stratospheric’ damages claim against Google, postpones trial
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Everything we’ve heard about Judge William Alsup tells us he’s a guy you don’t mess with — and yet Oracle seems bent on doing precisely that. When the company initially demanded $ 6.1 billion from Google in recompense for alleged violations of its Java patents, Alsup laughed that figure out of court and suggested $ 100 million might be closer to the mark. Ellison’s crew then came back with a revised claim of $ 2 billion, which we just knew would lead to another smackdown. Well, here it is: the judge has now cancelled the latest trial date (which had been scheduled for March) and refused to set a new one until the claimant stops using “improper methodologies” for assessing damages, which are “obviously calculated to reach stratospheric numbers.” Perhaps Oracle should try something more tropospheric?
Judge attacks Oracle’s ‘stratospheric’ damages claim against Google, postpones trial originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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DARPA setting up a $130 million ‘virtual firing range’ to help battle cyber attacks
Author: Tristan Richards
The US government is serious about online security, just ask any one of its cyber commandos. Adding to its arsenal for battling the big bad hackers, Reuters reports that DARPA is working on a National Cyber Range, which would act a standalone internet simulation engine where digital warriors can be trained and experimental ideas tested out. Lockheed Martin and Johns Hopkins University are competing to provide the final system, with one of them expected to soon get the go-ahead for a one-year trial, which, if all goes well, will be followed by DARPA unleashing its techies upon the virtual firing range in earnest next year. The cost of the project is said to run somewhere near $ 130 million, which might have sounded a bit expensive before the recent spate of successful hacking attacks on high profile private companies, but now seems like a rational expenditure to ensure the nuclear missile codes and the people crazy enough to use them are kept at a safe distance from one another. DARPA has a pair of other cleverly titled cybersecurity schemes up its sleeve, called CRASH and CINDER, but you’ll have to hit the source link to learn more about them.
DARPA setting up a $ 130 million ‘virtual firing range’ to help battle cyber attacks originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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DARPA setting up a $130 million ‘virtual firing range’ to help battle cyber attacks
Author: Brandon Zimmerman
The US government is serious about online security, just ask any one of its cyber commandos. Adding to its arsenal for battling the big bad hackers, Reuters reports that DARPA is working on a National Cyber Range, which would act a standalone internet simulation engine where digital warriors can be trained and experimental ideas tested out. Lockheed Martin and Johns Hopkins University are competing to provide the final system, with one of them expected to soon get the go-ahead for a one-year trial, which, if all goes well, will be followed by DARPA unleashing its techies upon the virtual firing range in earnest next year. The cost of the project is said to run somewhere near $ 130 million, which might have sounded a bit expensive before the recent spate of successful hacking attacks on high profile private companies, but now seems like a rational expenditure to ensure the nuclear missile codes and the people crazy enough to use them are kept at a safe distance from one another. DARPA has a pair of other cleverly titled cybersecurity schemes up its sleeve, called CRASH and CINDER, but you’ll have to hit the source link to learn more about them.
DARPA setting up a $ 130 million ‘virtual firing range’ to help battle cyber attacks originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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