Neowin News Feed for: Weakness

Lavabit, Silent Circle close over governmental pressures

Paul Ferson — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 08:58:31 +0000

Two supposedly secure email services, Silent Email and Lavabit, closed within a matter of hours of each other, with concerns about government pressure over 'high-profile' users of the services. Read more...

DNS change puts 284 Pakistani websites at mercy of hackers

Paul Ferson — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:16:04 +0000

A DNS change has put 284 webpages at a weakness to hackers. Among the pages defaced by a group of seemingly Turkish hackers are the eBay, Microsoft and Google sites. No groups claim responsibility. Read more...

Windows weakness can lead to network traffic hijacks

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:56:07 +0000

At the ShmooCon hacker conference, researchers with security firm IOActive claimed a design bug in the system used by Windows PCs to obtain proxy settings could let attackers hijack traffic. Internet Explorer on Windows PCs... Read more...

Opera "sun.*" System Information Disclosure Weakness

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 02:03:24 +0000

Marc Schoenefeld has reported a weakness in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose some system information. Opera accesses the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) directly instead of using the Java plugin. The... Read more...

Sony profit soars despite PS2 weakness

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 01:52:12 +0000

Shrinking PlayStation 2 shipments and sales send revenues from the game division tumbling. Sony Corporation reports that the game division of Sony's developement reduced sales of Playstation 2 hardware as well as... 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...

'Ethical hackers' test for weakness

Tue, 05 Aug 2003 13:46:22 +0000

In a 17th-floor corner office in north Toronto, a group of computer nerds is feverishly attacking Corporate Canada -- and getting paid for its efforts. "If you have a system on-line, you will... Read more...