Fahmida Y. Rashid

A group of hackers appear to have breached and extracted information from Foxconn’s network. Foxconn Electronics has not confirmed the breach. Attackers breached Foxconn Electronics, a Shenzen, China-based company responsible for manufacturing Apple’s iPhone, and extracted data from the servers, according to a Feb. 8 post on text-sharing site Pastebin. @SwaggSec claimed responsibility for the […]

Almost three years after Facebook promised to look into why photos deleted by users were still accessible online, the photos are still available, reported Ars Technica. Facebook offers the option to delete photos, but it appears the images are removed only from the site and not from the content delivery networks it uses to speed […]

Two of the three major Web browsers now offer some form of Flash Player with built-in sandbox protection. Internet Explorer is not one of them. Adobe has been modifying its popular Flash Player to include the sandbox technology that would block malicious code before executing. Adobe on Feb. 6 released a beta version of the […]

Symantec offered $50,000 to Yamatough in exchange for returning the source code related to the company€™s pcAnywhere product, according to an email chain posted on Pastebin. When negotiations fell apart, a copy of the code was leaked and posted on Pirate Bay. According to the emails posted Feb.6, Sam Thomas, a Symantec employee, reached out […]

Privacy should be built into online services by default, but it won’t happen so long as companies, such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook, rely on advertising to make money, according to a prominent privacy activist. Major technology vendors are providing sophisticated applications in exchange for user data, such as their preferences, online activities and behavior, […]

Federal law enforcement officials expect cyber-espionage, hacktivists and cyber-attacks to soon surpass traditional terrorism as the No. 1 threat facing the United States, according to Congressional testimony. “Stopping terrorists is the No. 1 priority,” Robert Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Feb. 1. “But down the […]

CANCUN, Mexico €” Recent reports painted a bleak picture of the security issues plaguing industrial control systems, but the situation is exacerbated by the fact that administrators are naïve about the dangers, researcher said. Researchers presented some alarming findings about the state of security for supervisory control and data acquisition systems at the Kaspersky Security […]

Some of the major organizations still have not removed the DNSChanger Trojan from infected computers, despite the fact that the botnet’s command-and-control infrastructure has been under the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s control for the past few months. The primary function of the DNSChanger malware family is to replace the Domain Name System servers defined on […]

The past few days has been filled with security patches and updates that may have slipped past IT administrators. Apache released its HTTP Server 2.2.22 which included fixes to six significant security flaws. Most of the vulnerabilities were rated either moderate or low. Apache fixed two low-priority privilege escalation issues, three moderate-priority exposure flaws, and […]

Companies get breached. That’s the lesson of 2011. Large or small, no organization is immune to attacks. The VeriSign breach was just another day of business as usual for the bad guys. Campaigns such as Operation Shady Rat, disclosed by McAfee, and Nitro, disclosed by Symantec, showed how every major industry vertical has been compromised […]

CANCUN, Mexico €” Security researchers need to shift their attention away from hunting for vulnerabilities and start thinking about ways to make it difficult to create exploits, according to a security expert from Adobe. There is too much focus on vulnerabilities and defects in software, Brad Arkin, director of product security and privacy at Adobe, […]

Malicious hackers trying to circulate malware-tainted applications on Android Market are going to find Google’s Bouncer at the door, preventing undesirable apps from getting in and kicking out troublemakers. Bouncer has been monitoring the Android Market for several months already, and Google claims it has seen a 40 percent drop in malicious apps between the […]