It wasn’t the most exciting update in the universe yesterday, but if Adobe recommends you snag it and calls snagging it “critical”, then that’s a good indication of things. Per MacNN, Adobe released Shockwave Player 11.6.4r634 on Tuesday, the new version following Adobe’s identification of nine “critical” vulnerabilities in Shockwave Player 11.6.3.633 and earlier versions […]
Category: security
It never hurts to be a bit more secure. Per Macworld, Twitter has announced that the company acquired Internet security firm Dasient. Dasient, which describes itself as a cloud-based Web antimalware technology company, introduced in 2010 a service to protect advertisement networks and publishers from malicious ads. The company announced the acquisition via its blog […]
There’s a few things you can count on: death, taxes and various groups of wanders trying to get personal information from you via scams and phishing efforts. Per AppleInsider, security firms have issued warnings regarding a new “well-crafted” phishing scam that attempts to fool customers into providing their AppleID billing information. Intego posted an alert […]
It’s hard to say if it’s discouraging to see the iOS get spotted on assorted security failures or reassuring to see that security experts manage to notice these and bring them to the public’s attention. According to Forbes, Mac hacker and researcher Charlie Miller has reportedly found a way to sneak malware into the App […]
It’s the hidden features that tend to make a gadget that much cooler. Per iDownloadBlog, a group of hackers have discovered a hidden panorama mode embedded within Apple’s Camera application on iOS 5, though the feature does not appear to be completed. iOS hacker Conrad Kramer, who goes by the alias Conradev, revealed via a […]