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  • Android SMS trojan goes wild

    Premium-rate text scam shows growing cracks in smart phone security. The first known SMS trojan affecting smart phones running Google ‘s Android operating system has been observed in the wild, highlighting growing cracks in the security veneer of the latest range of glossy smart phones. The trojan was first identified by researchers at Kaspersky Lab…

  • Patches come thick and fast in major update spree

    Monthly and out-of-band issues flood admins’ to-do lists. The release of this month’s Patch Tuesday security bulletins from Microsoft , with a fairly average 10 alerts covering 34 separate vulnerabilities, is accompanied by a number of additional fixes and updates which will keep security admins busy this week. Adobe has announced plans to provide an…

  • Macs under attack from trojan double whammy

    Two new threats in a week spark worries of approaching Mac malware era. Users of Apple Mac systems, who have so far only suffered from minimal attention from malware creators, may need to take more care in future according to some security analysts, after the exposure of a significant vulnerability in the operating system and…

  • Microsoft increases pressure on Apple to fix Safari blended threat

    ‘Carpet bombing’ vulnerability more serious than Apple claims, MS warns. Microsoft , whose Internet Explorer has come under frequent criticism for security vulnerabilities, has issued a security advisory alerting users of arch-rival Apple ‘s Safari browser to a potential security threat. The issue is a blended threat which combines quirks in both the Apple browser…

  • Bugs found in Apple’s new Windows browser within hours of release

    Safari not so good-y. A number of security researchers say they found bugs in Apple ‘s brand new web browser Safari for Windows just hours after its public beta release on 11 June. The only bug to have been independently verified so far was discovered by researcher Thor Larholm and concerns Safari ‘s failure to…

  • Vulnerabilities strike more AV firms, and Mac too

    F-Secure and Authentium patch holes, while Samba flaws worry Apple users. Users of Mac OS X , used to a cosy sense of security, have been warned of possible penetration vectors thanks to a slew of flaws unveiled in the Samba networking system used to connect Mac s to Windows systems. An alert issued by…