Khalil Shreateh, a Palestinian IT researcher, found a big Facebook security vulnerability, but Facebook ignored him. So he used the exploit to write on Mark Zuckerberg’s wall. The hack violated a fundamental rule about how Facebook works: If you’re not friends with someone, you can’t write or post links on Continue Reading
Microsoft released patch tuesday for August, addressing multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer and Exchange Server. The first update is MS13-059, a cumulative update for Internet Explorer, and patches 11 separate vulnerabilities, 9 of which are rated critical on one or more platforms. The 9 critical vulnerabilities are all Continue Reading
Google is distributing patches for a cryptography flaw in Android that may affect hundreds of thousands of applications. The patches have been passed to partners belonging to the Open Handset Alliance, a trade group dedicated to development of Android, wrote Alex Klyubin, an Android security engineer. Affected applications are those Continue Reading
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. has developed the world’s first technology for extracting and matching 2,048-bit feature codes from biometric data (palm vein images). In contrast to the existing matching process of comparing vein feature patterns, the new method employs feature codes extracted from vein images that represent the features of the Continue Reading
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, researcher Paul Stone demonstrated how cybercriminals could gain access to an Internet user’s information by leveraging various security issues. According to ThreatPost, Stone has come up with a new technique that allows hackers to gain access to the source code of Continue Reading
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