Privacy advocates are sounding the alarm bells as approval for a Microsoft patent filed in 2009 finally sees the light of day. To 'make matters worse', the patent called "Legal Intercept" may also be making its way into everyone's favourite VoIP application - Skype.
Despite the small increase in the version number, there’s actually a lot packed into Skype 5.6 for Mac. One of the biggest improvements is the addition of automatic updates – this is something that will be welcomes by anyone who likes to ensure that they always have the very latest version installed and is an important security measure as it means that any problems that have been detected with previous versions can be fixed automatically.
Nokia wove a convincing story this morning of success for the still-young and well-behind-the-competition Windows Phone platform, but it was one brief product mention that could be the best augur of future success: The arrival of Skype for Windows Phone–in beta form, at least.
Users of the world’s most popular Internet telephony service may be inadvertently putting themselves at risk of having their physical location and other personal details stolen, experts warn.
L33tdawg: Benjamin Kunz from Vulnerability Lab disclosed some pretty serious Skype flaws at HITB2011KUL - His slide deck can be downloaded from here.
A team of international researchers led by the Polytechnic Institute of New York University has detected flaws in Skype that puts the privacy of hundreds of millions of users at risk, they say.
Are you using the Skype for iOS app on your iPhone or iPod Touch? Then you need to be aware of how easily your information — particularly your entire address book — could be stolen without your knowledge. All it takes is a single chat message.
According to TechCrunch, the issue was first discovered by AppSec Consulting security researcher Phil Purviance — who claims that he pointed out the vulnerability to Skype about a month ago. You can see a rather technical demonstration of how information is stolen in the video below, but here's the simplified version:
A recently-spotted Skype spam operation has put users at risk of falling victim to possible fake antivirus attacks.
The attackers are using automated messages to place calls through the Skype VoIP service. The messages claim to be from a "system update" service and warn the user that their systems is currently lacking adequate security protection.
The folks over at Skype Journal noted last week a small update in the progress towards Microsoft closing on its proposed Skype acquisition.
L33tdawg: If you're coming for HITB2011KUL in October, don't miss Benjamin Kunz's Skype Vulnerabilities: Zero Day Exploitation 2011 talk
The latest version of Skype for Windows contains a security vulnerability that allows attackers to inject potentially dangerous code into a user's phone session, a German security researcher has reported.
Microsoft-borged Skype says it has outed a new version of Skype for Apple's OSX that will support the weird new Lion update as well as allow Macintoshers to make HD Video Calls
Skype 5.3 for Mac OS X also includes a number of fixes and improvements to the user interface, the outfit said. The update is reckoned to be backwards compatible with past versions of OS X, back as far as Leopard.
