Windows 8 vulnerable to hacking: Germany

FRANKFURT: A German government technology agency has warned that new security technology in computers running Microsoft’sWindows 8 operating system may actually make PCs more vulnerable to cyberthreats, including sabotage. Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, or BSI, said in a statement posted on its website on Wednesday that federal government agencies and critical infrastructure operatorsshould…

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90% SSL sites vulnerable to the BEAST SSL attack

90% of the Internet’s top 200,000 HTTPS-enabled websites are vulnerable to known types of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) attack, according to a report released Thursday by the Trustworthy Internet Movement (TIM), a nonprofit organization dedicated … View full post on National Cyber Security » Computer Hacking

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Apple Computers Vulnerable To ‘Flashback’ Malware

By Ian Bush PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Mac owners aren’t used to dealing with viruses. But that’s changing, now, with the biggest-ever threat, affecting hundreds of thousands of Apple computers. It’s malware called ‘Flashback.’ “It’s not a worm that spreads by itself,” explained Pierre-Marc Bureau. Pierre-Marc Bureau, a security intelligence program…

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