Reading Time: 3 minutes Update: check the latest version of Comodo’s free mobile security app Recently researchers from both the University of Michigan and the University of California at Riverside made a discovery that could change the way we look at our mobile devices. Researchers believe to have found a flaw within Android apps that can be used to…

Reading Time: 1 minute WordPress 3.9.2 has been released to address multiple vulnerabilities, including a critical security bug that could allow a critical denial of service issue. WordPress is the most popular Content Management System (CMS) used to create and maintain content on web sites and is provided free as an open source application. According to the WordPress release…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Update: check the latest version of Comodo’s free mobile security app When it comes to securing a digital device, antivirus is the major ingredient factor that comes to mind. It has been essential on desktop computers since the mid 1990’s, but is now just as essential on smartphones and other mobile devices. Hackers long ago…

Reading Time: 2 minutes When you are a celebrity you want exposure, but Apple’s iCloud has given a list of some of Hollywood’s top female celebrities more exposure than they bargained for. Over the Labor Day weekend, hackers compromised the iCloud accounts of some popular female celebrities and published nude photos of them. The embarrassed celebs include A-listers Kirsten…

Reading Time: 2 minutes When will the wave of POS data breaches that have been rocking American retail recently end? Not today, as retail giant Home Depot announced that they appear to have joined the parade of high profile victims of hackers. According to some reports, the Home Depot data breach could involve a massive compromise of cardholder data….

Reading Time: 2 minutes Mozilla has released its latest security updates for the Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client. The updates fix numerous vulnerability issues, some that an attacker could use to produce an exploitable crash or execute arbitrary code. There are 3 critical security updates in this release that resolve vulnerabilities in Firefox and Thunderbird: MFSA 2014-72: Fixes…

Reading Time: 2 minutes It may be time to stop writing articles about point-of-sale data breaches and write about companies that have not had a breach. It may soon be a shorter list. Dairy Queen is the latest to join the parade of retailers announcing a possible data breach, most likely related to the Backoff POS malware that has…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Microsoft suffered great embarrassment this month when it was learned that a Windows patch it released with its August Patch Tuesday updates, could actually cause a “Blue Screen of Death” lockup under certain circumstance.  Almost as embarrassing is that it took 2 weeks to release a fix to the fix. The bug in update MS14-045…

Reading Time: 2 minutes In July, Homeland Security warned of the Backoff POS malware threat, which has the ability to steal cardholder data and customer personal information. Their Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) announced this week that it is aware of Backoff being used to compromise a significant number of major enterprise networks, as well as small and medium…

Reading Time: 1 minute Google has released Chrome 37.0.2062.94 for Windows, Mac and Linux. This update includes 50 security fixes some of which could allow a remote attacker to obtain unauthorized access or cause a denial of service. Users and administrators should review the Google Chrome release blog and apply the necessary updates. In addition, the Google Chrome update…