Fixes are coming today for “hundreds” of Oracle products, following a series of high-profile corporate hacks pegged to a zero-day vulnerability in Java.
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Silent Circle aims for email that’s as secure as it gets
PGP and Navy SEALs take on privacy
It’s been 22 years since Phil Zimmerman, Jon Callas and the rest of the PGP crew brought encryption to the masses for free, and now the same team – augmented by backing from a couple of former Navy SEALs – has expanded into a new privacy concern that will launch an email service in a couple of weeks.…
Grey-hat gets 41 months in prison for exposing iPad user’s privates
‘Internet will topple governments,’ defendant proclaims
Andrew Auernheimer, a member of the grey-hat hacking collective Goatse Security, has been sent down for three years and five months in the slammer after he helped splay open iPad user’s private email addresses via a flaw in AT&T’s servers.…
Rid yourself of Adobe: New Firefox 19.0 gets JAVASCRIPT PDF viewer
Built-in reader escapes into wild from beta incubator
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser now includes a built-in PDF viewer – allowing users to bin plugins from Adobe and other developers.…
Brit mastermind of Anonymous PayPal attack gets 18 months’ porridge
Payback for Op Payback’s $ 5.5m web cannon blast
A British member of the hacking group Anonymous was jailed today for orchestrating attacks that knocked PayPal, Visa and Mastercard offline.…
RIM gets thumbs up from Visa for pay-by-bonk security tech
Trust us, we’re Canadian
RIM is hoping its reputation for superior security will smooth its path into wallet management as it gains Visa approval for the TSM platform that it is pushing to network operators.…
Naked Scarlett Johansson pic snatch bloke gets 10 YEARS
Saucy celeb snap plunderer: ‘What a relief’
A US man who hacked into the email accounts of celebrities including Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis and later leaked their nude photos has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.…
Celebrity hacker gets 10 years prison for e-mail hack
After stealing and posting private information from more than 50 celebrities — including Mila Kunis, Scarlett Johansson, and Christina Aguilera — Christopher Chaney is sentenced to prison.
Originally posted at News – Internet & Media
Hacking bazaar ExploitHub gets hacked, database leaked
But online shop denies $ 250k of exploits were pinched
Online boutique ExploitHub, which sells code to attack software security holes, has been plundered by hackers. A database snaffled from the marketplace was dumped online as proof of the raid.…
Reform candidate gets CISSP tin star sheriff’s job
Listen up, e-pilgrim
Reform candidate Dave Lewis has been elected to the (ISC)2 board of directors.…