iOS, BlackBerry OS Fall At Pwn2Own
Add Apple's iOS and Research In Motion's BlackBerry OS to the list of victims at this year's Pwn2Own challenge. Conference veteran Charlie Miller, along with…
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Apple's Safari Browser Embarrassed At Pwn2Own, Hacked In 5 Seconds
Safari just got served. At this year's Pwn2Own conference, security firms and enthusiasts are doing their very best to discover and deploy exploits to some…
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VeriFone CEO Slams Mobile Payments Startup Over Security Concerns [Video]
VeriFone's CEO, Douglas G. Bergeron, has taken to the Internet to publicly voice his company's concern with a mobile payments startup named Square. Via a…
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Pro-WikiLeaks Amazon, Visa Website Hackers Arrested
An unaffiliated group of pro-WikiLeaks hackers calling itself "Anoymous" finds itself short a few member this evening as multiple alleged culprits were arrested on Thursday…
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Sophisticated Android Trojan Discovered In China, Warns Security Firm
Firm Lookout Mobile Security is warning of a new, sophisticated, Android-focused piece of malware that has been found in China. The security company warns that the trojan, dubbed…
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Former No. 2 At WikiLeaks Prepares To Launch OpenLeaks
French digital journalism monitor OWNI published an interview Monday with former right-hand man to Julian Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Domscheit-Berg shot from anonymity to the spotlight…
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Facebook Confirms Account Disabling Bug; Claims Issue Is Resolved
Earlier today, BGR broke the news that a possible Facebook glitch or hack was disabling user accounts. We have now received a response from a Facebook…
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Facebook Hack Disabling Female User Accounts En Masse?
Unconfirmed reports are sweeping across the Internet as thousands of female Facebook users complain that their accounts have been inexplicably disabled. Users have taken to…
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Dell Responds To Complaints Of A Venue Pro Wi-Fi Bug
Earlier this week, BGR exclusively broke news concerning a bug plaguing several owners of the new Dell Venue Pro smartphone. Users reported an inability to…
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Vodafone UK Launches Smartphone Professional Service
Vodafone, one of the UK's largest networks, has launched a smartphone security service aimed at business professionals. The aptly named service -- Vodafone Smartphone Professional…
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Google Wields Ban Hammer, Ousts SMS Spying App From Android Market
It's not every day Google dusts off the trusty old ban hammer and squashes an Android app. After all, the Android Market is an open…
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FTC Will Not Fine Google For Stealing Passwords With Street View Cars
Following Google's recent admission that it accidentally stole passwords, emails and other personal information with its Street View cars, the Federal Trade Commission has decided…
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Security Flaw Allows Calls (And More) From A Locked iPhone Running iOS 4.1
Blog 9to5Mac has picked up on an interesting bug in iOS 4.1, running on the iPhone, that will allow users to bypass the device's lock…
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Motorola DROID 2 Security Flaw Allows Voice Actions From Passcode-Protected State
One of our astute readers let us know about a bug that appears to be present in all stock, unrooted, Motorola DROID 2s (and potentially other Android…
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India Gives RIM Until January 31 To Meet Compliance Standards
Canadian handset manufacturer Research In Motion, fresh-off a recent victory(?) in the UAE, has been given a hard deadline by the nation of India to…
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T-Mobile Responds To Complaints From G2 Users Seeking Root
In case you haven't been keeping up on your HTC G2 news: The recently released Android 2.2, G2 handset from T-Mobile has a built-in security…
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AT&T Announces First Carrier-Provided, Two-Factor Voice Encryption Service
Today, AT&T announced AT&T Encrypted Mobile Voice; "the first carrier-provided two factor encryption service for calls on the AT&T network." The service, which will be…
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Intel: HDCP Copyright Protection Keys Are Real
Back on the 13th of September, a mysterious post appeared on site pastebin.com; a post that contained number matrices reported to be the HDCP master keys.…
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Apple Releases Safari 5.0.1, Extensions Are Live, Address Book Bug Patched
This morning, Apple released an update to its Safari web browser. The biggest new feature that the update packs is the ability to customize Safari…
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Google Says "Me Too," Offering $3,000+ Bounty For Chrome Bugs
Several days ago, Mozilla announced that it would pay developers and hackers $3,000 for every reproducible, critical security flaw found in its FireFox web browser. Yesterday,…
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The Pirate Bay Hacked, 4 Million User Names, Email Adresses, And IPs Accessed
Argentinian researcher Ch Russo and his gang of merry men have successfully hacked The Pirate Bay. Speaking with security blog Krebs On Security, Russo proved to have…
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Goatse Security: The iPad Simply Is Not A Safe Platform For Those That Require A Secure Environment
Goatse Security, the firm who blew the lid off of an exploit that allowed the names and email addresses of over 114,000 iPad owners to be farmed,…
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AT&T Sends Out Apology Emails To iPad 3G Customers In Wake Of Security Breach
While the fallout continues over last week's security breach which saw hackers gain access to the email addresses of some 114,000 AT&T iPad 3G customers…
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Google Researcher Outs Zero-Day Exploit In Windows XP
On June 5th, Google researcher Tavis Ormandy notified Microsoft of a very serious bug in the Windows Help and Support Center of Windows XP. The…
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Security Breach Allows Hackers To Obtain Info On 114,000 AT&T iPad Owners
Um, wow. Gawker revealed today that a group of hackers from Goatse Security (no joke) were recently able to breach AT&T's servers and obtain confidential…
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Adobe Details Zero-Day Exploit, Affects Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, And Solaris
Yesterday, Adobe announced that a zero-day exploit exists in Flash 10.0.45.2 and earlier, as well as Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x. The company website explains:…
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Hackers Urge All EVO 4G Owners To Root Device Citing Security Flaws
Remember how jubilant we all were the first time the EVO 4G was successfully rooted? Well we're not smiling anymore. According to Matt Mastracci, one of…
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