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Facebook has announced the winners of its $800,000 prize money for projects that look to enhance the security and privacy of internet and Facebook user online and off. It'll give $200,000 more soon.

Researchers revealed that some device manufacturers are not storing fingerprint data securely. The HTC One Max was used as an example, showing how fingerprint data was being stored as a bitmap file.

Expanding their bug bounty program, Microsoft is now offering a minimum of $500 as a reward for exploits found in their online services such as Office 365, Outlook, Yammer and Lync.

A security researcher at Black Hat 2012 outlines a potentially big design flaw in a new air traffic control system, where airplanes can be projected onto radar screens out of thin air.

An analysis of 9,910 software applications from 2010 and 2011 shows that software developed by the U.S. government is far more likely to be vulnerable to security attacks than private sector products.

Only a day after the recent out-of-band Internet Explorer vulnerability patch, a new un-patched Internet Explorer flaw could leave thousands of users at risk. The new attack uses smaller un-patched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, small...