Recently I had an email of Facebook thanking me for the purchase of thousands of poker chips. I don’t play poker on Facebook. Unsurprisingly then, next time I tried to log-in I had to go through a surreal bur admittedly ingenious security check in which I was shown a series of photos of my friends [...]

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“As vulnerabilities go, this kind is the most serious as it allows remote execution of code. This means the attacker can run programs, such as malware, directly on the victim’s computer. It is highly reminiscent of a vulnerability at the same time two years ago which prompted several national governments to warn against using IE [...]

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Apparently, many people (mainly those in IT, spies, high-ranking business people, etc) are worried about the security of the Android OS and Google is not turning a blind eye to these anxieties. According to Android Arena, an upcoming ‘Google Apps Device Policy application’ will enable authorized company personnel to provide secure management and sync control [...]

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Microsoft have issued its largest ever batch of security patches yesterday. Essential fixes for a record 49 security holes have been released. James Walter, manager of the McAfee Threat Intelligence Service said “The volume is indicative of a trend we are seeing among various software vendors. As the awareness of vulnerabilities increases, the number of [...]

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In the virtual world, there’s nothing more precious than your precious Facebook password, (well maybe you’re online banking details, but that’s about it.) Allowing people to see your password (whether accidentally or not) will almost certainly lead to your friends, excuse the term, ‘fraping’ you and on a serious note those dodgy fraudsters and hackers [...]

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Google has given its Gmail service a new security feature to help companies that are migrating their e-mail to Gmail. The new feature is a second line of defense in the form of a PIN. The PIN has been introduced as the entire security of one of their e-mail accounts relies solely on the users [...]

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Microsoft have issued a warning about a type of attack mechanism known as DLL preloading, (aka binary planting.) The attack mechanism is not new or entirely unique to Windows, however Microsoft are concerned about what appears to be a new remote-attack vector that could allow more systems to be attacked quickly. Researchers at the University [...]

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Google must feel on top of the world at the moment with Froyo exploding onto all the latest handsets and taking the smartphone industry by storm. But like everything thing else, something was bound to come along and knock Android of its perch. There’s no doubting the quality of features and applications on offer with [...]

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