Facebook has announced plans to integrate anti-malware technologies from security firms Trend Micro and F-Secure into its services, in a bid to help spot and clean infected machines logging in to the service. Facebook software engineer Chetan Gowda announced that the company will offer the technologies to customers in a Continue Reading

Microsoft released eight bulletins addressing 13 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, and Office as part of May’s Patch Tuesday update. Three of them are already being exploited in the wild, Microsoft said. While Microsoft did not release any patches for XP users, experts believe the issues affect the old operating Continue Reading

Adobe Systems released critical security updates for several products Tuesday in order to fix vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to take remote control of systems running the vulnerable software. The products that received security patches were Flash Player, the Adobe AIR SDK (software development kit) and Compiler for building rich Continue Reading

A researcher has discovered an exploit in iOS 7.1.1 that allows hackers to bypass the iPhone’s lock screen to send a text, email or call contacts simply by activating Siri. Egyptian neurosurgeon and part-time white hat hacker Shefif Hashim discovered the glitch earlier this week and posted a Youtube video Continue Reading

IBM is offering organisations concerned about the risk of security breaches, attacks and data losses a software and services suite that mitigates against the impact of such incidents. The firm said that its Threat Protection System “disrupts threats”, and will limit data losses, an increasingly common occurrence that can harm Continue Reading