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Germany flags up critical flaws in iOS

...security agency has warned of "critical weaknesses" in iOS that could provide attackers with unrestricted access to an iPhone if the owner clicks on a... Read more

7 July, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Google fixes Android Market bug

...has fixed a bug in the Android Market that could have allowed attackers to distribute malicious apps to gain control of devices. Researcher Jon Oberheide... Read more

8 March, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Microsoft Patch Tuesday release to fix four holes

...to be ignored. They all involve remote code execution, which means an attacker could force code to run on a target's machine and could... Read more

4 March, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Cisco warns of flaws in videoconferencing code

...warned of critical security vulnerabilities in its videoconferencing products that could allow attackers to harvest user passwords and take over systems. Cisco publicly disclosed six... Read more

18 November, 2010 by Jack Clark

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release tackles Duqu

...the TrueType font handling in the Windows kernel that could allow an attacker to take control of a machine. It has been used in the... Read more

14 December, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Adobe warns of critical flaw in Reader for Windows

...the wild against Adobe Reader 9.x on Windows", could allow an attacker to take control of the system, Adobe said.Adobe is finalising a... Read more

7 December, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Nokia admits developer details leaked in hack

...week, the phone manufacturer has admitted. The intrusion resulted in the apparent attacker, 'pr0tect0r AKA mrNRG', redirecting visitors to the Nokia Developer Community forum to... Read more

30 August, 2011 by David Meyer

Adobe moves to plug Flash Player hole

...update mechanism," Adobe said in a statement. Adobe warned on Monday that attackers were exploiting the hole to take control of Windows computers by sending... Read more

14 April, 2011 by Elinor Mills

US Justice Department disables Coreflood botnet

...of computers that have been compromised and are being remotely controlled by attackers, typically to send spam or attack other computers. In this case the... Read more

14 April, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Google pays out top bounty for Chrome bug

...Google said. It has not published further details. Critical vulnerabilities let an attacker run arbitrary software on a person's computer just by visiting a... Read more

14 January, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Sophos releases antivirus program for Mac home users

The web security firm has unveiled Sophos Antivirus Home Edition for Mac, a free version of its commercial software Read more

3 November, 2010 by Elinor Mills

DDoS attackers line up new targets

Hackers in the 'Operation Payback' campaign have announced their intention to target anti-piracy organisations, including a BitTorrent monitoring service Read more

29 September, 2010 by Darren Pauli
Here's Johnny: A Methodology for Developing <endeca_term>Attacker</endeca_term> Personas

Here's Johnny: A Methodology for Developing Attacker Personas

...intrinsic part of the design of secure systems, but the assumptions about attackers and threat is often limited or stereotypical. Although there has been previous... Read more

1 June, 2011
Complexity of Fairness Constraints for the Dolev-Yao <endeca_term>Attacker</endeca_term> Model

Complexity of Fairness Constraints for the Dolev-Yao Attacker Model

Liveness properties do, in general, not hold in the Dolev-Yao attacker model, unless the authors assume that certain communication channels are resilient, i... Read more

25 March, 2011
Cooperative Position Verification - Defending Against Roadside <endeca_term>Attackers</endeca_term> 2.0

Cooperative Position Verification - Defending Against Roadside Attackers 2.0

Security analysis has shown that attacks from roadside attackers constitute the highest risk for Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs). Therefore, protecting... Read more

19 November, 2010

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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Thomas Gellhaus

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

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Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

22 hours ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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