There is some bad news, enough to make you question how secure is your information when it comes to using Skype on your iOS device.Folks at Superevr claim to have found an XSS vulnerability that exists within the Skype chat window in Skype 3.0.1 for the older generations of the iPhone and the iPod Touch. This vulnerability exposes your information to hackers who can steal this information.
Security online is one of the major issues and concerns for all the people hooked to it. We have seen how compromising can it be for anyone; from individuals to organizations. We have seen the Sony PlayStation network being hacked by some notorious folks out there and very recently the Nokia Developers Forum a couple of days back. It can be denting to the reputation that takes decades to build and trust that’s very hard earned. Now I don’t need to reiterate the entire philosophy behind trust building. Read More »
The Web Of Trust (WOT), the world’s leading crowd sourced reputation rating service with its global community reporting over 5 million sites reported of being malicious and untrustworthy, has gained a massive popularity over time. It’s community is comprised of over 20 million people who have rated 30 million plus sites to date. The idea to protect users from such sites is a must need but the job is impossible to be undertaken by a few individuals, especially for the fact the Web continues to grow exponentially. We have social networks like Twitter and Facebook where loads of links are shared, countless applications requesting to access your personal information and the tragedy is they all prove to be havens for scammers and malware. Call it lack of awareness, but this grows for one reason or another.
Call it a nightmare for the Sony PlayStation Network or a curse that it is desperately trying to rid itself of, but there has been a third attempt on the Sony PlayStation Network which has failed. Good news for Sony, as it can’t afford losing out on this and appear the least secure. thus losing credibility. Read More »
Flaw is the new in for Steve Jobs’ Apple products. We have seen it happening since the release of the iPhone 4 and the over reporting of the Antennagate issue. We witnessed the year starting with security flaw that had the iPhone 4 making its way to the bloggers all the way to recent one in the iOS 4.1 that enables users to make calls and have access to photos and contacts on your device, which Apple has promised to fix with the release of iOS 4.2 in November.
It was only a few hours back we informed our readers about the iOS 4.1 security flaw that enabled users to make calls even when your iPhone was locked. Apple appears to have taken notice of the issue and have accepted the existence of the flaw in the iOS.
So when is the fix coming? Soon and expect this in the next release of the iOS 4.2 in November which will be focused solely on fixing the bugs found in the iOS 4.1. As earlier reported the iOS 4.2 will be coming next month for the iPod Touch, iPad and the iPhone alike.
Looks like Antennagate isn’t the only problem with the number 4 for Apple. The iPhone 4 had issues with the death grip, then came the weaker glass framework of the iPhone 4 and now we have a report on a security flaw with the iOS 4.1. This exploit leaves the passcode entry on your iPhone a pointless thing, if someone happens to get his hands on your iPhone and enters a random number in the Emergency call field and simultaneously hitting the call and hardware unlock button.
What’s the result? The user has access to the Phone App, giving them complete access to your call history, address book and voicemail. Some sources report this would even give access to the photos on your iPhone 3G / 3GS and the iPhone 4. This can be done with the selection of share contact, which would show a camera icon and thus provide access to the photo album. The Home button on the iPhone remains unresponsive, meaning your home screen remains inaccessible for the random user. But the harm is actually done as the person has access to your photos, contacts and can make calls, send MMS and Email using this exploit. The video below shows it in work:
I for one need to do spend a lot of time on Google searching for various research reports, images, etc. And like most users, it isn’t surprising I too come across numerous malicious links. These include fake videos, images, spam sites and what not. The problem is antivirus and detection services don’t provide an ultimate solution, however we are looking forward to better secure ourselves. Zscaler, a leader in cloud security answered our question on how to protect ourselves against SEO spam with a Firefox add-on and is called Search Engine Security.
The plugin would protect users from most of the malware out there including fake AV and fake video pages. You can download Search Engine Security here.
I was up talking to a friend a couple of days on how writing about Facebook was the biggest pain in life and the adverse psychological problems it got me into. But you can’t help not talking about it, given that the third of everyone online is on the social network. Plus Facebook has more to do with simply connecting people, its more to do with their lifestyles and their privacy, which is the biggest concern.
I had been reading about the latest turn of events on Facebook about Ron Bowes making user data publically available. That data was of over 100 million users who are a part of the social network. But before I proceed let me state that Ron Bowes is not a hacker in my opinion. Why? Well
Bug Alert on Facebook! Reports state that the social network was hit by a bug that revealed quite a lot about those who were affected by it. It revealed information such as the Chat messages between friends, friend requests that were pending and quite a lot of other private information.
The bug didn’t last long and affected the social networking site for a short period of time as stated by the company. This took advantage of a loophole in the social network’s preview my profile in the privacy settings of users. To avoid more issues and user chat messages from being revealed Facebook disabled the Chat feature on the site while the issue was fixed.
