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  • Fear and hacking on the bug bounty trail

    It could be a scene from almost any city start-up office on a Friday afternoon, except the workers here have been flown in from five continents, and will eat tonight at Sydney’s most expensive restaurants before wandering back to their beds at the five star Westin hotel over the road.

    Written by George Nott13 Nov. 18 10:57
  • Adobe issues warning over Flash vulnerability

    Adobe Systems Inc warned on Monday that hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in its Flash multimedia software platform in web browsers, and the company urged users to quickly patch their systems to prevent such attacks.

    Written by Reuters17 Oct. 17 08:00
  • Your BlackBerry's dirty little security secret

    Tyler Shields, senior member of the Veracode Research Lab, spends a lot of time <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/podcast/533263">picking apart those BlackBerry devices</a> that are ubiquitous across the enterprise. What he's found may disappoint those who thought they were secure.

    Written by Bill Brenner20 April 10 02:39
  • Online security questions are too easy to answer

    Security questions that allow web users to access online accounts if they forget their passwords can easily be answered by hackers willing to spend time surfing the web, say researchers at the University of Cambridge.

    Written by Carrie-Ann Skinner10 March 10 02:10
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