'Unhackable' Android can be hacked

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	'Unhackable' Android can be hacked LAS VEGAS -- Once thought to be unhackable, the Android phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010. Read More WHITE PAPER: Insight How to Double Productivity of Your IT Staff Examine how Oracle Database 11g helps IT provide more information with higher quality of service, making more efficient use of budgets and reducing the risk of change in data centers. Learn more! In this Issue Microsoft's bug reports fail to produce prompt patches US military wants to protect social media privacy ATM hack gives cash on demand FBI details worst social networking cyber crime problems X Prize opens $1.4M competition for technology to rapidly clean up oil spills Microsoft wins a Pwnie for failure Open source web apps often insecure, new tool discovers Details from 100 million Facebook profiles posted online Google crowned 'king of malware' Juniper secures Cisco Cius OS Verizon: Data breaches often caused by configuration errors Black Hat too commercial for you? WHITE PAPER: EMC Embark on the VDI Journey Deploying a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) moves resources back into the data center making them easier to manage and improving efficiency. The increased standardization and reductions in the number of desktop images simplifies image building, patch testing, and update testing. Click to Continue Microsoft's bug reports fail to produce prompt patches The Microsoft Vulnerability Research program said Wednesday that third party developers have patched less than half the bugs it reported to them over the past 12 months. Read More US military wants to protect social media privacy Military researchers are embarking on a project designed to provide social media users on Facebook or even Google for that matter, greater privacy. Read More ATM hack gives cash on demand Barnaby Jack hit the jackpot at Black Hat on Wednesday. Twice. Read More FBI details worst social networking cyber crime problems The FBI has in the past two years seen a major uptick in the use social networking accounts such as Facebook and MySpace for cyber crime and today it detailed that problem to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Read More WHITE PAPER: Insight How to Double Productivity of Your IT Staff Examine how Oracle Database 11g helps IT provide more information with higher quality of service, making more efficient use of budgets and reducing the risk of change in data centers. Learn more! X Prize opens $1.4M competition for technology to rapidly clean up oil spills As expected, X Prize Foundation today announced a $1.4 Million competition for advanced technology to help clean up devastating oil spills like the one currently Read More Microsoft wins a Pwnie for failure Microsoft has earned the dubious distinction of having the Most Epic FAIL of the last year in computer security with a browser cross-site scripting (XSS) filter that actually exacerbated the problem.The company was given the award at the conclusion of the annual Blackhat 2010 security conference Wednesday in Las Vegas. I wasn't there so I don't know if anyone from Microsoft stepped up to accept... Read More Open source web apps often insecure, new tool discovers Security company Qualys has released a new open source tool, BlindElephant, which can accurately fingerprint web applications down to version level in order to better manage the security issues which now plague such software. Read More Details from 100 million Facebook profiles posted online Details from 100 million Facebook profiles have been made available on the web by a security consultant. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qualys 12-point checklist outlines key considerations Discover a 12-point checklist for choosing the best vulnerability management solution for your organization. Read now! Google crowned 'king of malware' Google has been crowned the 'king of malware' by security company Barracuda Networks, linking to twice as much malware as search rivals Bing, Yahoo and Twitter combined. Read More Juniper secures Cisco Cius OS Juniper can now secure Cisco's new Cius tablet thanks to an acquisition it made this week. Cisco's rival announced plans to acquire SMobile, a developer of security software for tablets and smartphones, for $70 million. Read More Verizon: Data breaches often caused by configuration errors Hackers appear to be increasingly counting on configuration problems and programming errors rather than software vulnerabilities in order to steal information from computer systems, according to a new study from Verizon. Read More Black Hat too commercial for you? Two premiere security conferences -- Black Hat and DefCon -- run back-to-back in Las Vegas this week, each with their own distinct flavor. But even these events don't meet the needs of all computer security pros, setting the stage for a widening set of satellite events. Read More
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