They can do wonderful products and they can be real pain. I hate being in the position of saying to my customer the provider I used to publish their software does not provide the requested option, specially when it comes to simple statistics. When you publish an iOS app on the App Store, it is impossible to know the number of app downloads before the last 26 weeks.

Openness is loved by android users, but the idea spreads fast into the Malware coders mind. The DroidDream app recently took Google by surprise: the app simply wipes off your phone, takes your data.

Three of the Canadian government’s key departments, including the systems of Canada’s financial nerve centers, have been compromised by China-based hackers, it was learned this week. But Thursday, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper assured his country that Canada does have a system in place to defend those crucial systems.

Found on the CRIM website, a new paper covering important aspects of software testing : Proceedings of the 22nd IFIP International Conference on Testing Software and Systems: Short Papers.

Business strategy can often be compared to military strategy. Well known marine tactics from the Second World War include the convoy tactic. Smaller sentinel ships are deployed next to larger battleships to provide counter measures in the event of enemy submarine attacks.

FedRAMP is a governmental initiative to provide guidelines and a certification process for software products and service and is mainly targeted at cloud computing.

Protection will be available first to Google Apps Premiere, Government, and Education edition users, at no extra charge.

The worm, first detected in July, could be considered the most sophisticated malware ever, after new findings.

Intel wants to combine its hardware with McAfee's security software to provide secure computing on all possible platforms.

A classic social-engineering scheme lured mass of users into downloading the worm, which emailed itself to their list of contacts.

The US Department of Homeland Security's computers were found to be riddled with more than two hundred unique high-risk vulnerabilities, according to an audit report.

Email and peer-to-peer networks also rank as significant venues for malware attacks, which have increased slightly in the U.S. but declined in Europe, according to Panda Security.

The motivation behind the $7.68 billion deal is unclear, but Intel says it wants to integrate computer security into its hardware.

The Internet Service Provider will start mailing letters to its customers who are suspected to be part of a botnet.

Researchers published the results of a study showing that the 'private mode' of Web browsers is letting through more information than we would expect.

Rumors of discussions for a deal where Verizon would give advantage to Google content in return for payment have since been clarified.

One week before the regular Patch Tuesday, Windows gets a fix for the vulnerability that allowed the Stuxnet worm two weeks ago.

The new version of Apple's Web browser fixes 15 security bugs while getting to pace with other modern browsers.

Siemens SCADA systems are vulnerable, should have been easily protected.

The American agency believes the data gathered by such services could help identify the culprits of the compromizing of Web applications.

Zero Day Initiative Advisory 12-018 - This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Symantec PCAnywhere. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The flaw exists within the awhost32 component which is used when handling incoming connections. This process listens on TCP port 5631. When handling an authentication request the process copies the user supplied username unsafely to a fixed-length buffer of size 0x108. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the SYSTEM account.

The WBR-1310 suffers from an authentication bypass vulnerability that can be exploited by remote attackers to change administrative settings. Note that this vulnerability can be exploited via CSRF even if remote administration is disabled.

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