ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

Microsoft's Skype brand had their Twitter, Facebook and WordPress accounts hacked by a someone claiming to be the Syrian Electronic Army. The real question is, where was the two-factor?

Microsoft has defended claims that detailed deep co-operation with the US government, including the circumvention of encryption in its Outlook.com email and access to its SkyDrive cloud storage service and Skype.

A statement issued by Microsoft denied it had provided blanket access of its products to NSA surveillance teams, and reiterated that it only responds to valid requests. "We have clear principles, which guide the response across our entire company to government demands for customer information for both law enforcement and national security issues," the statement said.

Bereits zum zweiten Mal innerhalb weniger Wochen ist im VoIP-Dienst Skype eine Schwachstelle entdeckt worden, die es einem Angreifer ermöglicht auf die Profile seiner Kontakte zuzugreifen und womöglich Code in deren Systeme zu schleusen.

The update to Skype 5.5 provides integration with Facebook that contains a critical security vulnerability...

Anwender berichten von obskuren Nachrichten, die sie über Skype erhalten haben. Microsoft hat noch keine Lösung für das Problem gefunden, rät aber allen Nutzern vorsichtshalber ihr Passwort zu ändern.

Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have identified a spam message campaign on Skype that spreads a piece of malware with Bitcoin mining capabilities.

The independent security researcher Ucha Gobejishvili has detected a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities affecting shop.skype.com and api.skype...

A security researcher has discovered a potentially major security flaw in Facebook, apparently caused by the communication package/service's recently-launched close integration with Facebook.