APPLICATION SECURITY Articles
Rising Cybercrime Pushes African Governments to Take Action
New CERTs have been set up in South Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Ivory Coast and Tunisia
Microsoft to Start Automatic Updates of IE Without Asking the User
Windows Phone Bug Reportedly Disables Messaging
The Windows Phone messaging hub is disabled by sending certain a text string, according to the Winrumors blog
2012: The new age of malware
Malware forms aren't changing much, but the means of delivering it, and its intent, is becoming more stealth and sinister, according to Roger Thompson of ICSA Labs
Cross-Site Scripting Flaws Plague Web Applications, Report Says
Code-scanning vendor Veracode found nearly a third of Web applications had SQL injection flaws
Yahoo Messenger Flaw Enables Spamming Through Other People's Status Messages
The unpatched vulnerability in Yahoo Messenger allows attackers to change other people's status messages automatically
Skype flaw reveals users' location, file-downloading habits
A team of researchers has uncovered an issue that imperils Skype users' privacy by putting their location and identity up for grabs
In 2012, a mobile security minefield
Researchers say smartphones are full of vulnerabilities that are ripe for the attack. Technology and vendor diligence will help improve things in 2012, but only to a point.
Unpatched Apache Reverse Proxy Flaw Allows Access to Internal Network
Security researcher reveals how to bypass older patch for an Apache reverse proxy vulnerability
Healthcare breaches: Do they even matter?
Electronic medical record breaches continue, yet the public pays little attention to healthcare provider security and privacy policies.
