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Most Americans trust Apple Inc to protect their personal information from hackers, according to a national Reuters/Ipsos poll, but not any better than rivals Google, Amazon and Microsoft. The results of the poll were released late on Monday, in the middle of a legal battle between Apple and the U.S. Justice Department over a judge's order that Apple write new software to disable passcode protection on the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino,...

Yahoo! has gone partially password-free with the stable release of a second-factor account sign-in tool that uses push messages to identify users. The mechanism first launched in October for Yahoo! Mail allows users to log into other Purple Palace apps including Messenger, Finance, Fantasy, and the Sports app on iOS and Android handsets. Product boss Lovlesh Chhabra says users will receive a push notification when they attempt to log into an app which will confirm...

Adele has fallen victim to a hacker who shared a haul of private photos online, according to reports. The leak is said to have included a baby scan and a photo of the singer’s three-year-old son. The tranche also contained pictures from the singer’s childhood, a photo of her dressed in a Santa Claus outfit as a teenager and the early days of her career not previously released to the public, the Sun on Sunday...

If you love to traverse the web and install random apps from weird and shady parts of the internet, of course you're going to have a bad time. This is accepted wisdom in the Windows world, and so it should be in the mobile world, too. Make no mistake, Android has massive fundamental security issues to tackle, and there are millions of hostile apps looking for every opportunity to empty your bank accounts, or use...

Apple's iMessage system has a cryptography flaw that allowed researchers to decrypt a photo stored in iCloud, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. The researchers, led by cryptography expert Matthew D. Green of Johns Hopkins University, wrote software that mimicked an Apple server and then targeted an encrypted photo stored on iCloud, the publication reported. They were able to obtain the decryption key by repeatedly guessing each of its 64 digits. When a correct digit...

As Apple Inc(AAPL.O) feuds with the U.S. government over iPhone privacy protections, the tech giant is also grappling with internal conflicts over privacy that could pose challenges to its long-term product strategy. Unlike Google(GOOGL.O), Amazon(AMZN.O) and Facebook(FB.O), Apple is loathe to use customer data to deliver targeted advertising or personalized recommendations. Indeed, any collection of Apple customer data requires sign-off from a committee of three "privacy czars" and a top executive, according to four former...

A pilot project launched by vulnerability handler MITRE to address stagnation in the assignment of bug identification numbers has been shelved less than a day after its announcement and before its scheduled launch today. The pilot was devised in response to complaints by security researchers and MITRE board members about the stalled allocation of CVE numbers. As detailed by The Register, dozens of security researchers have struggled to gain Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) numbers...

Physical weaknesses in memory chips that make computers and servers susceptible to hack attacks dubbed "Rowhammer" are more exploitable than previously thought and extend to DDR4 modules, not just DDR3, according to a recently published research paper. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ArsTechnica

The next malicious attachment in your inbox might not be targeting your computer but your car via a rigged recall notice, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has warned. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CSO

An independent security researcher that goes by the name of MalwareTech has discovered a way in which he could abuse the ZeroAccess malware's botnet to launch reflection DDoS attacks with an above-average amplification factor. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Softpedia