The phenomenon of organizations allowing or encouraging their employees to use their own computing devices for work–known as Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD–is now widespread in many countries, bringing with it some serious risks to company networks and data. As we first reported here on the blog a few weeks ago, ESET commissioned a …
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Foxconn, a Taiwanese manufacturer of iPhones and iPads for Apple, and infamous for alleged inhumane working conditions that have purportedly led to worker suicides, has been hacked by a group calling itself Swagg Security. Swagg has doxed the login details for every user in the company, including Terry Gou, the CEO and Chairman of … Repeat after me – Apple is not giving away any free iPads, iPhones or MacBooks in memory of Steve Jobs. Nevertheless, it appears that many people believe that the company is doing a special promotion to honour the passing of their late founder judging by the number of people who are currently being scammed on … The news wires are awash with stories about Facebook, cookies and privacy. The source of all this concern seems to be an article written by self-proclaimed “serial entrepreneur, writer and hacker” Nik Cubrilovic of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. (Old-school network hackers will no doubt remember Wollongong from the University of Wollongong’s eponymous and once-widespread … Be nice to the guys in your IT department on Wednesday, as they will be (hopefully) rolling out a critical security patch for Adobe Flash in order to make your computers safer. Adobe has pre-announced that it has scheduled a Flash Player critical security update for sometime today, Wednesday 21 September. According to a brief … Apple has been in the news recently concerning the spate of entire fake Apple Stores (23 at last count) popping up in China. Cult of Mac is reporting that Apple’s global security chief, John Theriault, has hired Don Shruhan, a former Pfizer colleague, to help track down and stop the production of counterfeit Apple products. … If you have been on Facebook for any length of time, then you know full well how scam and spam laden the site can be. Scammers love crowds, and there isn’t one bigger than Facebook. We have created a top ten list of the most common and active Facebook scams to look out for: Profile Peekers …Nicholas Allegra, better known as ‘comex’, the creator of the JailBreakMe website which made it child’s play for iPhone owners to jailbreak their devices, has been given an internship at Apple. The 19-year-old from Chappaqua, New York posted the news of his new position on Twitter: Allegra has given Apple plenty of headaches in … A website that makes it child’s play for iPad and iPhone owners to jailbreak their devices raises important security concerns. The site, jailbreakme.com, exploits a PDF vulnerability to run unauthorised code on Apple customers’ iPhones and iPads, including the new iPad 2. In this way they allow users to unlock their devices, and run programs … As I mentioned in blog post last week, the e-Healthcare (Electronic Healthcare) industry is quite possibly a ticking time-bomb, for various reasons. And today, I read a memorable quote about the state of security in this segment (Neil Versel, InformationWeek): “Electronic medical records haven’t fulfilled their promise of safer, more efficient, lower-cost care, and … Brian Krebs had a nice post this week about the on-going plague of poisoned Google image searches, and I realized I’d been thinking about the problem quite a bit when I sat down to help my daughter with some homework earlier this week… As an introduction, I think we first posted about this as a growing … BEIJING – A fight broke out between an employee and a customer at an Apple store in China’s capital amid a frenzy to buy the newly launched white iPhone 4, a witness said. Thirty-year-old Wang Ming said Saturday’s scuffle at the Apple store in Beijing’s Sanlitun district was between a “foreign” Apple staffer and a … |
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