- A researcher at zvelo has discovered that he can recover the PIN used to make payments with Google Wallet in just seconds on a rooted Android device. (continue reading...)
- 31-year-old student from Warrington admits to trying to improve his grades at Temple University Ambler Campus, near Philadelphia, by hacking into the university’s computerised grading system.
- It's ten years since British hacker Gary McKinnon was arrested, and now another hacker has been indicted for allegedly hacking into NASA computers.
- Have you received an email claiming to come from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) today? If you did, be careful.
- Can hackers really cause as much bloodshed as 353 Imperial Japanese Navy fighters, bombers and torpedo planes launched from six aircraft carriers?
Can hackers really kill 2,402 U.S. citizens, leave 1,282 wounded, lose 65 of their (continue reading...)
- Symantec has confirmed that source code of an old version of pcAnywhere has been published on the net by hackers, as claims are made that the data thieves tried to extort $50,000 from the security (continue reading...)
- Over two years after the issue was first raised, Facebook has admitted that it's still working on deleting photos from legacy servers in a timely manner.
Which might mean that photos that you wanted to permanently (continue reading...)
- iPhone app developers Path and Hipster are in hot water after it was discovered they are sending your address book to their servers without permission.
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Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast Episode 112
Hosts
Paul Asadoorian, Product Evangelist
Carlos Perez, Lead Vulnerability Researcher
Ron Gula, CEO/CTO
Announcements
New iSeries and AS/400 plugins are being released this week!
Check out our video channel on (continue reading...)
- While the media just looove zero-day exploits, the security industry sees a lot more exploits designed to take advantage of patched vulnerabilities. Question is why don't many of us get around to installing the patches? (continue reading...)
- The editor of The Times has apologised, after he admitted a journalist had hacked into a serving police officer's email account.
- At a press conference promoting the new Muppets movie, Kermit the frog declined to comment on the high profile allegations of the media breaking into the mobile phone voicemail systems. (continue reading...)
- Be on the lookout for emails claiming to come from a daytime TV show, after it was discovered that scammers are using the disguise to grab personal information. (continue reading...)
- A large volume of spam messages pretending to be from Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, are flooding inboxes. Don't click the links, they lead to pages infected by the infamous Blackhole exploit kit. (continue reading...)
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Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast Episode 111
Hosts
Paul Asadoorian, Product Evangelist
Carlos Perez, Lead Vulnerability Researcher
Ron Gula, CEO/CTO
Jack Daniel, Product Manager
Announcements
Check out our video channel on YouTube that contains the latest Nessus (continue reading...)
- Widespread protests about ACTA have occurred in Europe. Why is there such anger, and what can be done about it?
- This week, Paul Ducklin joins Chet to talk about the Sophos Security Threat Report 2012, the new anti-phishing proposal known as DMARC and mobile phone numbers being leaked through HTTP headers at O2. (continue reading...)
- The FBI may shutdown the DNS servers victims of the DNS Changer malware have been using on March 8th. Is this a dangerous action, or is five months to clean up your PC enough? (continue reading...)
- Encryption only helps secure your data when the keys are a secret, a lesson learned the hard way by Ernst and Young and Regions Financial.
- Google has pleasantly surprised the mobile malware research community when it announced yesterday that Android apps are analysed for malicious behavior before being allowed onto the Android Market, but is it all good news? Vanja (continue reading...)