- Foxit fix for iPhone PDF flaw
- Apple to patch iPhone PDF flaw this week
- Apple releases fix for iOS PDF exploit
- Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors
- Critical updates to Windows, Flash Player
- Dissecting a click fraud botnet
- Adobe warns of critical Flash player flaws
- New undetectable trojan empties bank accounts
Via Hacker News. - Opera fixes high severity vulnerability
- Chrome beta addresses autofill vulnerability
- Server based botnet drives massive SSH brute force attack
- Facebook bug could expose users’ names, photos
- Nagging security flaws in Windows auth protocol
- Critical QuickTime flaw hits Windows
- Security bug may enable snooping on Android, Palm Pre
- Blackhole your malware
Tag: Opera
Security Alerts for the Week Ending 7/4/2010
- Securing WordPress based on hard won, 1st hand experience
- New Twitter phishing attack
- New Microsoft Messenger has same security flaws as the old
- 22 million SSL certs in user are invalid
- Kraken botnet returns from the dustbin
- Adobe pushes out emergency fixes for Reader
- Qualitative differences in crypto and data usage
- White hate demonstrates Foursquare privacy hole capturing hundreds of thousands of logins
- Hack AT&T voice mail with Android
- Regular domains have more malware than porn sites
- Detection of suspicious logins extended to Google Apps
- Facebook apps must now seek user permission to access their data
- Replacing static CAPTCHAs with animation
- Top apps fail to utlize security features in Windows
- 50 arrested in spyware dragnet
- New Opera version includes malware protection
Security Alerts for the Week Ending 6/27/2010
- A spike in iPhone phishing attacks
- Apple accused of hushing security update
- iPad left vulnerable after iPhone patch
- Researchers uncover a dozen zero day flaws targeting five exploit kits
- Opera fixes some severe security flaws
- Security fixes for Opera as well as Safari
- Verisign certs open to tampering, though advisory is from competitor
- DNSSEC rolling out
- Survey scammers use fake Dr. Who clips
Quick Security Alerts for the Week Ending 5/9/2010
- Updated Facebook privacy and security guide
- How new Facebook APIs affect old security issues
- Social hacking guide to understanding Facebook privacy
- Why exploiting buffer overflows took so long to mature
- Severe flaw in Opera
- Opera fixes extremely severe flaw
- Foxit PDF reader blocks attacks where Adobe’s reader fails
- Facebook flaw exposes chat, user data
- WiFi cracking kits sold in China
- Hacker developers ATM rootkit
- Security firm reveals “silent” patches from Microsoft
- Facebook leaks IP addresses
Opera Gets into Apple’s App Store
ReadWriteWeb was the first of many in my feeds to have this story. I expect that Opera will shoot up by number of downloads, driven by their existing user based and the curiosity of other iPhone and iPod users curious to see how the browser stacks up against Mobile Safari.
I downloaded Opera to my iPod. It seems serviceable if a bit rough. Form input lacks the next button which I am sure I’ve seen in other 3rd party apps. I don’t know whether the absence is Opera’s fault or an exclusion in the iPhone OS’s APIs. The mobile Gmail interface looks like crap though again I don’t know if it is because Opera doesn’t support the necessary HTML5 features for the snazzy version or the user agent for the mini version is so new Google isn’t recognizing it yet. I am sure we’ll see a more elaborate teardown on no fewer than a dozen tech blogs on the minute differences between Opera and Mobile Safari on the iPhone. I am merely grateful that choice has been improved, as suspicious as I am of Apple’s motives.
For me this cements my intuition that the approval process is entirely arbitrary and may as well be random. There is a strong trend of applications being rejected for too closely mimicking capabilities of the bundled applications in the iPhone OS. How on earth does this make sense in lit of that reasoning? I mean other than a blatant bone tossed to the strongest critics of Apple’s approval process.
I don’t agree with Curt Hopkins suggestion in the article that this may herald the arrival of other browsers. I’d love to have Fennec on my iPod (when it is a bit more fully baked, mind you), but Mozilla has made it abundantly clear they will not submit Fennec for approval. I do not blame them in the slightest. Given the removal of the Google Voice application from the app store, I doubt that Chrome will ever make it onto the iPhone. I haven’t even heard any whispers to that effect. That makes sense, Google is wiser to focus on their own competitive platform.
What does that leave? Internet Explorer? What other browsers would make it onto the platform that are anything other than the “browsers” that preceded Opera, just re-skinned versions of WebKit?
Quick Security Alerts for Week Ending 3/14/2010
- USB charger has a back door
- Googles self defense on privacy criticisms
- OpenSSH 5.4 released
- Critical Opera flaw
- HTC phone shipping with malware
- Exploits of IE flaws found in the wild
- MS patches dangerous Excel flaw
- Dozens of ZeuS botnets knocked offline
- Many ZeuS nodes back online
- Apple blocking iPhone security software
- Koobface botnet refreshes to stay ahead of defenders
- Safari update fixes several security flaws
- Facebook adds click jacking protection
Opera to Take a Run at the App Store, iPhone
Slashdot is one of many to pick up this story. I hope they are successful, even though I am not an Opera user, let alone a fan. Gruber, of course, is quick to remind us that there are other browsers for the iPhone already. These are little better than mash ups of the jigsaw pieces the SDK provides. Opera Mini, if successful, could open the door for far more interesting alternatives.
Personally, I have wanted nothing more than Fennec, Mozilla’s mobile browser, on my iPod Touch. Unfortunately, I believe Mozilla has decided to avoid the iPhone, now, on principle. Maybe, just maybe, they’d reconsider if Apple did approve an Opera submission.