Blizzard Entertainment’s newly launched Diablo III video game was hacked within a few days of its launch, and servers in Europe were taken offline for four hours on Sunday.
22 May 2012
G-Cloud is the government strategy to reduce IT expenditure by increasing use of the cloud. It calls for 50% of new spending to be used on cloud services by 2015 – but a new report from VMWare suggests such targets will likely be missed by the public sector.
21 May 2012
The tethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1, Redsn0w, still works on iOS 5.1.1. This week, probably on 25 May, a new untethered jailbreak is likely to be announced at the Hack-in-the-Box conference.
21 May 2012
Symantec researchers recently discovered several dummy sites being used to peddle the Android.Opfake malware, which is being disguised as games such as Temple Run and Cut the Rope.
18 May 2012
A number of US lawmakers are applauding Twitter’s decision this week to implement a Do Not Track (DNT) policy.
18 May 2012
Google has shipped its Chrome 19 browser with 20 security fixes, including eight designated “high” severity, and doled out $16,500 in bug bounties.
17 May 2012
More than one-third of organizations surveyed reported suffering at least one breach in the last 24 months that resulted in critical information being stolen, according to a survey conducted by IANS and sponsored by network security firm Fidelis Security Systems.
16 May 2012
Apple has issued two security fixes for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard that targets holes exploited by the Flashback malware.
16 May 2012
US security firm McAfee recently uncovered several ready-to-use toolkits that enable hackers to redirect unsuspecting Pinterest users to malicious websites with only a couple lines of code.
16 May 2012
Adobe has decided to provide free security updates for the CS5 versions of Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash Professional after receiving flak for only offering the fixes through paid upgrades to CS6.
15 May 2012