Posted January 29, 2013, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web
Several security vulnerabilities found within common UPnP implementations have prompted experts at Rapid 7 to recommend the public disable UPnP entirely. Research spanning several months in 2012 revealed that over 2 percent -- or about 50 million -- of all…
Posted October 4, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, IT Security
Software scam artist Kristy Ross has been fined $163 million by U.S. authorities for running an unscrupulous "scareware" operation. The Federal Trade Commission had been following Ross since 2008 in hopes of closing in on her dealings and the judgment includes…
Posted September 20, 2012, 5:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Apple
While iOS 6 has been busy finding its way to iDevices everywhere, hackers too have been busy circumventing Apple's latest round of security measures. Redmond Pie reports that those efforts have apparently paid off, producing a tethered jailbreak for the…
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