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Tag Archives: Vulnerability
Facebook and Yahoo team up to block account hijackings via recycled accounts
Facebook and Yahoo have figured out how to undo the mess Yahoo made when it decided to recycle old email addresses. 
POODLEs, Sandworms and getting safe online – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
The week’s security news, turned into an entertaining lesson, turned into a 1-minute video. Enjoy…
Has the “Sandworm” zero-day exploit burrowed back to the surface?
You may have noticed that Microsoft recently published a Security Advisory that sounds a lot like the “Sandworm” vulnerability all over again. Paul Ducklin explains…
Twitter invites us to say goodbye to passwords, use Digits instead
Twitter’s new credentials handling scheme is called Digits, and it’s hoping that mobile app developers use it to enable their users to sign in with their phone numbers as identifiers, along with one-time passwords SMSed to the phones. 
SSCC 170 – Is the best time to shop at a store right after it has a breach? [PODCAST]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly security podcast. Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski, John Shier and Paul Ducklin as they turn news into advice…
Is your phone line a ‘6-figure liability waiting to happen’?
Premium-rate service scams are sticking businesses – particularly small ones using local carriers – with outrageous phone bills, to the tune of $4.73 billion globally for 2013. Many businesses aren’t even aware that they can be stuck paying the bill (or fighting it in court). 
Apple pushes out iOS 8.1 – kills the mobile POODLE and closes some, ahem, “backdoors”
The marquee vulnerablity fixed in iOS 8.1 is, as you might expect, POODLE. But there are other cryptographic fixes in iOS 8.1 that are equally important…because cryptography is notoriously hard to get right first time.
“Oops! I’m sorry about that” – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here it is – this week’s 60 Second Security video. News that will amuse, and it only takes a minute…
Apple kills the POODLE – also fixes Shellshock in case you forgot
Apple just shipped OS X 10.10 Yosemite – including a fix for the POODLE vulnerability. Mavericks and Mountain Lion also got updates to kill the POODLE. As for Lion, now three releases off the pace…bad news.