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With two lockscreen holes and a fingerprint sensor that can be fooled with woodglue, we thought we'd given diehard iPhone fans a horse that was already dangerously high enough for them not to get down from.. [I think you have mixed more than a metaphor there, Ed.] For example, we chose not to cover the fact that the New York Police Department were handing out flyers over the weekend advising residents of the Big Apple to take Even Bigger Apple's advice, and to upgrade to iOS 7 as soon as possible for security reasons. The link for this article located at Naked Security is no longer available. . iOS device owners advised to update immediately over critical security weaknesses such as biometric exploitations and unauthorized entry points.. iPhone Backdoor,Fingerprint Flaw,iOS 7 Security,Apple Security,Lockscreen Bug. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Google Wallet, which initially launched in September of 2011, has decided to temporarily suspend its provisioning of prepaid cards as a result of two newly discovered security vulnerabilities. Recently, a security research team uncovered a potential threat to the overall security of the Google Wallet. . The initial issue, which revealed that a brute-force attack could reveal a Google Wallet user. The initial issue, which revealed that a brute-force attack could reveal a Google Wallet user. google, wallet, which, initially, launched, september, decided, temporarily, suspend. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
A flaw in the common open-source scripting language PHP could allow attackers to crash or compromise a hefty fraction of the nine million servers running the open-source Web software Apache, as well as other Web servers. A member of the PHP engineering team warned Web developers of the software flaws in an advisory on Wednesday, but security experts believe that while some in the Internet underground have tools to exploit the flaw, few people have the resources.. . .. A flaw in the common open-source scripting language PHP could allow attackers to crash or compromise a hefty fraction of the nine million servers running the open-source Web software Apache, as well as other Web servers. A member of the PHP engineering team warned Web developers of the software flaws in an advisory on Wednesday, but security experts believe that while some in the Internet underground have tools to exploit the flaw, few people have the resources. "It is not really easy to execute," said Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer for the SANS (System Administration, Networking, and Security) Internet Storm Center, who obtained a program file that illustrates the vulnerability. A handful of holes appear in different versions of PHP, a scripting language that can be installed on many different Web servers--including Apache, Microsoft's Internet Information Server and iPlanet--allowing them to create Web pages on the fly from a database of information. The link for this article located at ZDNet is no longer available. . A vulnerability in the widely-used open-source language PHP might enable malicious actors to destabilize or breach systems utilizing Apache server technology.. PHP Security, Web Server Exploit, Apache Threat, Server Compromise. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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