Samsung’s newly released Galaxy S5 phone sports a fingerprint scanner embedded in the home button that works well but unfortunately, like iPhone 5S’ TouchID before it, can be tricked with a mould of the user’s fingerprint. “Samsung’s implementation of fingerprint authentication leaves much to be desired,” researchers from Berlin-based security Continue Reading

Microsoft has released its final security fixes for Windows XP as part of its latest Patch Tuesday update. The latest set of releases is quite light, with just four patches issued, two labelled as ‘critical’ and two as ‘important’. These cover key Microsoft products Windows, Office and Internet Explorer. The Continue Reading

Internet security experts are scrambling to assess the extent of the breach caused by a massive bug called Heartbleed in the OpenSSL technology that runs encryption for two-thirds of the web and went unnoticed for two years until last week. A newly discovered bug in software supposed to provide extra Continue Reading

Apple on Tuesday patched the security vulnerability in Safari that was successfully exploited at last month’s Pwn2Own hacking contest, where a team cracked the browser to win $65,000. The Cupertino, Calif. company seeded updates for both Safari 6 and Safari 7 yesterday, promoting the former to version 6.1.3 and the Continue Reading

Researchers have released technical details and attack code for 30 security issues affecting Oracle’s Java Cloud Service. Some of the issues make it possible for attackers to read or modify users’ sensitive data or to execute malicious code, the researchers warned. Poland-based Security Explorations typically withholds such public airings until Continue Reading