Published yesterday by Microsoft the eighth edition of its Security Intelligence Report (SIR), safety report. The report (which you can download from this page) consider in particular the second half of 2009, and is based on data from more than 26 countries. The data were collected with the consent of the user, by [...]

A German researcher, Karsten Nohl, announced at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, to be able to decrypt the protection code, called A5 / 1, used in GSM mobile phone network. This was reported by the New York Times. Nohl, who said that he was just animated "by a spirit purely academic", has made available [...]

The new Microsoft operating system, Windows 7 in its default configuration is less secure than Windows Vista. A support Trend Micro, a company active in safety. According Raimund Genes, CEO of Trend Micro, Microsoft Windows 7 has sacrificed safety to prioritize usability. Genes believes that XP Mode present in some [...]

More than 55 000 sites were hacked as revealed by Mary Landesman, a researcher in the security threat alert team ScanSafe. Hackers would have succeeded, through a SQL injection attack, to incorporate the sites, Europeans and Americans, an iframe pointing to an interim site that picks up in turn by seven sites [...]

Just a week ago, a team of researchers has revealed the security risks in the digital certificates due to a flaw in the MD5 algorithm. The team of researchers, belonging to the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, EPFL in Switzerland, and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU / e) always in the Netherlands, has identified a problem of [...]

According to a Microsoft lawyer, Bonnie MacNaughton, pirates prefer to pirate Windows XP rather than Windows Vista. "Historically, counterfeiters tend to focus on the software version of the 'n-1'," said MacNaughton. "Because of the security features and more robust antipiracy in Vista, the pirates continue to focus on XP. But [...]

A serious security problem for the IPhone was discovered by some sites like Gizmodo and forum site Mac Rumors. The problem concerns the IPhone with the latest software version 2.0.2 iPhone. As demonstrated at the sites indicated an attacker can with three simple steps (just click on the 'Emergency Call' in [...]

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, admitted that Apple is able to remotely control the iPhone and remove software installed on the iPhone. As stated by Jobs Apple to remove the intervention of a software installed on the iPhone would be the case in which a malicious software is [...]

The service pack 3 of Windows XP released a month ago includes a vulnerable version of Adobe Flash Player. According to the report several sources, including computer world, in sp3 Windows XP includes the version of Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0, released in December 2007 and subject to security issues. On April 8, [...]

According to reports WebSense some spammers would be able to breach the security of Google GMail captcha. The test CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is used to check if the user with whom you interact is actually a person or a computer (bot). Usually the test consists of [...]