Critics slam SSL authority for minting certificate for impersonating sites
Critics are calling for the ouster of Trustwave as a trusted issuer of secure sockets layer certificates after it admitted minting a credential it knew would be used by a customer to impersonate websites it...
Like Path, Hipster Also Uploads Your Address Book To Its Servers Without Telling Users
Social networking app Path hit the headlines yesterday after it turned out the company was taking users’ entire address books and uploading them to their servers. It’s a big privacy violation, but Path’s hardly the only one doing this. In fact, computer engineering professor...How To Keep Apps Like Path From Accessing Your Contacts Data [Jailbreak]
We told you yesterday that Path was secretly uploading your iPhone’s entire address book to its servers. Users of the inclusive social network voiced concern, and many decided to remove the app entirely until Path addresses the issue in...Path Uploads And Stores Your iPhone’s Entire Address Book On Its Servers
In what can only be considered the very definition of irony, it has been discovered that Path 2 for iPhone secretly uploads and stores your entire address book to its servers. In case you didn’t know, Path is a hot...Google to strip Chrome of SSL revocation checking
Google's Chrome browser will stop relying on a decades-old method for ensuring secure sockets layer certificates are valid after one of the company's top engineers compared it to seat belts that break when they are needed most.
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iOS Security: One Big Reason Haliburton Chose The iPhone Over Android
Haliburton’s decision to choose iOS as its new mobile platform was made after “significant research” indicated that iOS “offered the best capabilities, controls and security for application development,” according to a leaked memo published by AppleInsider. These capabilities, collectively known as mobile device management...Energy Giant Haliburton Dumps BlackBerry For iPhone
In what appears to be a watershed moment for Apple’s iOS, a leaked memo published at AppleInsider indicates the one of the world’s largest energy companies, Haliburton, will be transitioning to the iPhone as its exclusive smartphone of choice. That comes as a huge...Kelihos botnet remains very much dead after all
A spam botnet brought down four months ago, which was once capable of pumping out almost four billion spam messages a day, remains very much dead, two of the companies behind the takedown said.
That determination, announced ...
At long last, malware scanning comes to Google’s Android Market
Google engineers have unveiled a cloud-based service that scours the Android Market for malicious smartphone apps.
Bouncer, as the scanner is called, automatically checks each title in the Google app bazaar to make sure it doesn...
Mac OS X 10.7.3 hits Software Update along with Safari 5.1.3
Apple has released a new update for Mac OS X Lion, version 10.7.3. The update's release notes indicate that it's a relatively minor bump, with myriad bug fixes for things like smart card logins, printing Word documents using mark......
Symantec: Anonymous stole source code, users should disable pcAnywhere
Symantec has confirmed that the hacker group Anonymous stole source code from the 2006 versions of several Norton security products and the pcAnywhere remote access tool.
Although Symantec says the theft actually occurred in 20...
UK Cell Company O2 Exposes Customer Phone Numbers To Websites
O2, once Apple’s exclusive cell phone company reseller of iPhones in the UK, has been caught exposing user phone numbers in the headers sent to websites its customers visit while using its 3G network. London-based systems administrator Lewis Peckover discovered the issue yesterday, while...
