- Windows 8 to feature image sign, BBC News
- Feds to Focus R&D Efforts on Designing Security in to Applications, threatpost
- An MIT magic trick: computing on encrypted databases without ever decrypting them, Forbes via Slashdot
- Highly critical zero day vulnerability in Windows discovered, The H Security: News and Features
- Gaining a remote shell on Android, threatpost
- Microsoft reviewing reported Windows 7-Safari hole, InSecurity Complex at CNET News
- Android application allows remote access – no permissions required, threatpost
- Quality Coding Takes A Break For The Holidays. But Why?, threatpost
- Localised ransomware identified by Microsoft, The H Security: News and Features
- Critical holes in Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, The H Security: News and Features
- VLC Media Player 1.1.13 fixes security vulnerability, The H Security: News and Features
- ICanStalkU twitterbot nags Twitter users about disclosing their location, Boing Boing
- Facebook commits to privacy changes following Irish audit, The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
- Mozilla updates Thunderbird to version 9.0, The H Security: News and Features
- Windows 8 picture password is ‘Fisher-Price toy’ says father of 2-factor authentication, NetworkWorld via Slashdot
- Microsoft confirms Windows vulnerability, The H Security: News and Features
- Android trojan sends revolution messages, The H Security: News and Features
- In possible targeted attack, Amnesty International web site found serving malware, threatpost
- Windows 8 gesture login: Can screen smudges reveal your password?, Ars Technica
- FreeBSD issues five security advisories for Christmas, The H Security: News and Features
- Firmware update mitigates HP’s LaserJet printer security problems, The H Security: News and Features