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Researchers from MWR Labs unveiled a zero-day attack against a Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone last week during EUSecWest, which leveraged the device’s Near Field Communication (NFC) connection to gain full control over it.

During the EUSecWest security conference last week in Amsterdam, researchers taking part in the Pwn2Own Mobile contest showed off a new attack vector in WebKit that can be used to snatch pictures, browsing history, and address book information from an iPhone.

Facebook Ireland has disabled their tag suggestions, a feature that uses facial recognition technology, in order to comply with Irish Data Protection law, and by extension EU privacy laws. News of the change comes in a report published by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland last week.

Consumerization may be one of the factors influencing enterprise IT, but for many organizations, security may not be keeping pace, according to a new paper by Forrester Research.

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Monday denied reports that it displayed some users' old private messages in public "timelines" at the social network. Facebook said it investigated the complaints, initially from members in France, and was satisfied there had been no breach of privacy.

Just over a year after it was initially discovered, Flashback is extinct. The death declaration comes from ESET, who has recently published a report on the malware, made famous by building the world's largest Mac OS X-based botnet.

When Defending Against Today's Threats, It's Important To Know If a Particular Security Solution Is Ready For The Front Llines of The Network.

DAMASCUS - Syria's ministry of information on Monday denied the sacking of the country's ambassador to Lebanon and said a previous email announcement was a result of hacking, state television reported. "The email account of the ministry was hacked in order to publish inaccurate information" about the reported dismissal of the Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel Karim Ali, the ministry said in a statement carried by state television.

Office of Energy Infrastructure Security Will Address Cyber Attacks Risks and Physical Threats Such as Electromagnetic Pulses

WELLINGTON - New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has ordered an inquiry into government agents spying "unlawfully" while assisting police in the lead up to the arrest of Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom. Key said Monday he has told the Intelligence and Security department to investigate "the circumstances of unlawful interception of communications of certain individuals by the Government Communications Security Bureau".

TEHRAN - Iran blocked access to Google's popular and relatively secure Gmail service Monday amid first steps by the Islamic republic to establish a walled-off national intranet separate from the worldwide Internet. Access to Google's search page was also restricted to its unsecured version, web users in Iran found. Attempts to access it using the secure HTTPS protocol were also blocked.

Researchers at Symantec have discovered malware that has been written using Google’s Go programming language. Go was introduced by Google in 2009, two years after its initial design, and Symantec’s discovery seems to be the first time a malicious application has been found that was developed using the programming language.

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As promised, Microsoft has patched Internet Explorer against the recently disclosed Zero-Day that made headlines all week. In addition, they patched four other flaws that were privately disclosed, but unlike the main vulnerability, were not being exploited in the wild.

A security researcher from Application Security, Inc. (AppSec) has discovered a flaw in Oracle’s software that would allow an attacker to crack database passwords with basic brute-force attacks. Details of the attack were discussed on Thursday at the Ekoparty conference in Argentina.