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 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:12:51 -0500 |
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| Motorola Xoom Tablets Sold With User Data on Woot |
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| Motorola Mobility's troubles with the Android Honeycomb-based Xoom tablet continue as nearly 100 WiFi Xoom devices were accidentally resold with user data on them. - Motorola
Mobility (NYSE:MMI) Feb. 3 said that it failed to wipe some user data from
roughly 100 out of a batch of 6,200 Motorola Xoom WiFi tablets that were
refurbished and resold via daily deals Website Woot between October and
December 2011.
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owners who performed a factory data reset... |
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| Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:03:42 -0500 |
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| Google Bouncer Gives Android Market Some Security Muscle |
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| NEWS ANALYSIS: The Android Market was kind of like the Wild West until Google Bouncer showed up as the new sheriff in town. - As peculiar as the after-the-fact announcement of Google
Bouncer may have been, it was still good news. Perhaps Google was ramping up,
trying to make sure that its Bouncer would work as intended and be able to
handle the flood of new apps submitted to the Android Market. Perhaps the
company just... |
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| Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:02:45 -0500 |
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| VeriSign Breach Not A Surprise, Attackers Target Everyone |
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| The VeriSign breach is an example of how no one is too secure or too big to be attacked. Security experts said targeted attacks on "high value" companies will continue. - Companies get breached. That's the lesson of 2011. Large or
small, no organization is immune to attacks.
The VeriSign breach was just another day of business as usual for the
bad guys.
Campaigns such as Operation Shady Rat, disclosed by McAfee,
and Nitro, disclosed by Symantec, showed how eve... |
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| Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:02:26 -0500 |
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| Researchers Need to Focus on Defenses, Not Bug Hunting: Adobe |
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| Adobe wants researchers to focus on mitigation technologies that make it expensive for attackers to launch attacks, not hunting bugs. - CANCUN,
Mexico – Security researchers need to shift their attention away from hunting
for vulnerabilities and start thinking about ways to make it difficult create
exploits, according to a security expert from Adobe.
There is too much focus on vulnerabilities and defects in
software, Brad Arkin... |
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