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Sky News exposes dodgy laptop repair shops [UK]

Tom Warren — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:46:32 +0000

Sky News in the UK have exposed several laptop repair shops including some big names like Micro Anvika and PC World. During the investigation, researchers unplugged a RAM stick from a laptop to see if... Read more...

BlackBerry PDF flaw exposes corporate networks

Tom Warren — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:56:49 +0000

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is warning businesses to disable the function which allows a BlackBerry to read PDF files until it can issue an update, after a security flaw was found in the company's... Read more...

BBC Exposes Serious Facebook Privacy Flaw

Tom Warren — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:56:01 +0000

The BBC's technology programme Click has exposed a security flaw in the social networking site Facebook which could compromise privacy. Using a simple malicious application could open up yourself and your friends (who do not... Read more...

Security Glitch Exposes OS X Account Passwords

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:57:55 +0000

Apple has confirmed a security glitch that, in many situations, will let someone with physical access to a Macintosh computer gain access to the password of the active user account. The vulnerability arises out of... Read more...

Laptop theft exposes data of 106,000 US taxpayers

Steven Parker — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:59:18 +0000

Connecticut state officials in the US have acknowledged that an employee laptop containing thousands of taxpayer names and social security numbers was stolen about two weeks ago, but said there was no indication that the... Read more...

Apple slip exposes eight-core Mac Pro?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:51:37 +0000

Apple may be about to equip its Mac Pro desktop with Intel four-core Xeon processors, if an inadvertent posting on the company's UK online store is to be believed. The Mac maker's taken the offending... Read more...

Google Antiphishing Site Exposes Private User Data

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:56:10 +0000

Google has removed a few user names and passwords posted inadvertently to a phishing blacklist it compiles and makes publicly available on the Web. The Mountain View, California-based company said it has also implemented a... Read more...

Teen Exposes Google Security Flaw, Partially Fixed Overnight

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:07:31 +0000

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,... Read more...

Deutsche Telekom Passport hole exposes 120,000

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:19:40 +0000

Deutsche Telekom this week was forced to suspend all activities of its Online Business Service Operation Centre (OBSOC), a German version of the Microsoft's Passport system, which enables customers to order and pay for online... Read more...

IE flaw exposes weakness in Yahoo! filtering

Wed, 24 Mar 2004 04:27:55 +0000

Flaws in the filtering technology used by Web-based email services make it possible for hackers to smuggle viruses past defences. Israeli security outfit GreyMagic Software warned today that this "severe security" vulnerability could allow attackers... Read more...

Safari exposes IE as a brave face for poor coding

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:19:22 +0000

Safari developer David Hyatt has attacked Internet Explorer for letting website developers get away with writing 'malformed code' and consequently holding back the development of Apple's browser. In his weblog Hyatt explains that most of... Read more...

Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft flaws

Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:17:55 +0000

Another related story.... This weekends attack should be seen as a serious wakeup call for system administrators who have been lax in patching their systems and should serve to increase awareness about the importance of... Read more...

Tower Records site exposes data

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 10:36:39 +0000

Thanks xStainDx...A security hole on Tower Records' Web site exposed data on millions of U.S. and U.K. customers until it was closed late Wednesday. The glitch allowed anyone to peruse Tower Records' Web site to... Read more...

Dutch ISP exposes confidential data

Darren Bolton — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 09:00:59 +0000

Ex-customer inundated with customer details A Dutch internet service provider has accidentally spammed a former customer with hundreds of confidential emails. The problem started when Albert Curvers tried to cancel his... Read more...

Netscape flaw exposes hard drives

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 01 May 2002 15:46:21 +0000

Thanks CheekyMonkey An Israeli software firm has discovered a flaw in Netscape and Mozilla software that allows code hidden in a Web page to read files from the user's PC. The bug... Read more...