A serious flaw has been discovered in the way Microsoft's Windows Phone OS, which causes devices to freeze if they receive a particular message through SMS, Facebook, or Windows Live Messenger. More...

A security blogger expose two flaws in Mac OS X Lion that allows unauthenticated password changes and the acquisition of password hashes by any logged on user. More...

A potentially dangerous security hole in Apple’s range of MacBook battery micro-controllers’ firmware could be exploited to destroy the batteries inside the notebooks, according to security researcher Charlie Miller. When looking into batteries in MacBooks,... More...

On Saturday, during the Defcon Security Conference, Chris Paget (an independent researcher) provided a very risky and surprising demonstration. The demo involved Mr. Paget eavesdropping on AT&T subscriber phone calls in front of a large... More...

Microsoft released a temporary "Fixit" workaround on Tuesday, to protect Windows users against a critical unpatched Windows Shell vulnerability. Microsoft issued a security bulletin on Friday to warn customers of a 0-day exploit involving the Windows... More...

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it is investigating a publicly reported vulnerability in the Windows Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll) affecting 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The flaw resides in the Canonical... More...

In a report from ITWorld, the code used late last year to attack Google in China has now been made public on the internet, and has already been used in at least one hacking tool... More...

Adobe Systems warned users Tuesday that hackers could use recently-reported "clickjacking" attack tactics to secretly turn on a computer's microphone and Web camera. Flash on all platforms is susceptible to clickjacking attacks, Adobe said in... More...

Microsoft plans to fix a bug in the Windows operating system that has been blamed for a handful of critical vulnerabilities in Windows software. The flaw lies in the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) handler technology... More...

Security researcher Aviv Raff claims to have found the first security vulnerability in Apple's Safari browser on Windows only hours after the software was released. Raff tested the application against a standard browser security testing... More...

Acting very quickly, Google fixed the security hole on Jan. 1 after being notified of its existence on Dec. 30. According to reports online, however, the flaw was only partly corrected. The flaw can exploit,... More...

Google said it fixed a security flaw in Google Reader on Wednesday that could have allowed a hacker to steal sensitive information from Web surfers. A Google RSS feed addition tool was vulnerable to... More...

A security flaw in the PayPal web site is being actively exploited by fraudsters to steal credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to PayPal users. The issue was reported to Netcraft today via... More...

A critical vulnerability has been found in some versions of Apple's popular iTunes that could allow attackers to remotely take over a user's computer, according to a warning issued Thursday by a security research firm.... More...

Symantec has issued a patch for a vulnerability in its corporate antivirus software that could allow an unauthorized person to access a company's servers. The flaw, in version 9 of its AntiVirus Corporate Edition product,... More...

New versions of the Mozilla Foundation's browsers have reintroduced a seven-year-old flaw that makes them vulnerable to spoofing attacks, security advisory company Secunia said Monday. Secunia first publicized the flaw last summer,... More...

CNet news is reporting today that a potentially serious security flaw has been found in the Trillian instant messaging client. Trillian is an instant messaging (IM) software which allows users to interact... More...

Yahoo Inc. has fixed a flaw in its Web-based e-mail service that exposed Yahoo Mail users to serious attacks, including potential interception of personal data, security company Finjan Software Inc. said Wednesday. Yahoo's mail service... More...

Security researchers are warning of a security hole in Yahoo Inc.'s Messenger that could allow attackers to run their own code on computers using the instant messaging program. The buffer overrun vulnerability was discovered... More...

As we posted early yesterday, we received information that there was a security hole in MS beta newsgroups, which let anyone with a valid beta account view all the newsgroups on the server. This issue... More...

Today subscribers of Microsoft's official security mailing list received what seems like the beginning of the next script kiddies golden age. Microsoft have discovered a critical (Aye, brothers, indeed!) buffer overflow in the Remote Procedure... More...

Security experts are sharply criticizing Symantec Inc. for the way it handled a flaw in one of its security services earlier this week. Independent security researcher Cesar Cerrudo posted an advisory late... More...

Security researchers have warned of a flaw in communications software that could allow attackers to take over computers running Windows, Unix-based operating systems and Mac OS X, as well as Kerberos authentication systems. ... More...

RESEARCHERS HAVE IDENTIFIED a fresh security flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser and Outlook e-mail client which can leave systems open to malicious code inserted in e-mails or Web pages, network security consultancy... More...

CISCO SYSTEMS ISSUED an advisory late last week saying that its CallManager call-processing application has a security flaw in it that could leave the product open to a denial of service (DoS) attack. ... More...

Thanks go to NewOrder for the heads up on yet another flaw, this time in AOL's IM chat program. A security flaw in AOL's popular online chat program could allow a remote attacker... More...

:O Gasped when i read this during my visit to Slashdot. Excerpt from a /. reader: "Don't know if this is common knowledge at this point or not, but apparently some... More...