Our heartbeats could be used instead of traditional passwords to unlock smartphones, tablets and cars using a new device being developed by Canadian company Bionym. Passwords scrawled on a scrap of paper are easily lost, jumbled letters and numbers are quickly forgotten and, with “password” still the most popular password, Continue Reading

An unaddressed five-month-old flaw in Apple’s Mac OS X gives hackers near unlimited access to files by altering clock and user timestamp settings. As reported by Ars Technica, a bug discovered five months ago has received renewed interest due to the creation of a new module in testing software Metasploit, Continue Reading

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