USB key appears to be misplaced. Microsoft has confirmed that the drive is just a compilation of publically available tools and adds that the USB-based toolkit does not "backdoor" or bypass any of Window’s security features. Seattle Times reporter Benjamin...

it wasn't hard to jump on the news that another iPhone game developer was accused of stealing personal data from its consumers. A class action lawsuit, filed in San Francisco (PDF), alleges that the company used an "electronic backdoor" to access the information.The...

that may only be a small fraction of the overall invasion; the sensor deployed by the Web Application Security Consortium was installed on just one "of a massive number of open proxies."Barnett said that he's known about Yahoo's backdoor bug for years, and...

a hidden kill switch (or rather an application blacklist). Upon speaking with the Wall Street Journal, Apple’s Steve Jobs confirmed it to be true: there is such a feature on the iPhone. However, Jobs insisted that the backdoor access existed in case a malicious...

While RIM has not officially announced any intentions, it is highly likely follow the same path, updating the BlackBerry OS once the applications store launches in March (if a backdoor isn’t already present with the 4.5 release). There’s no question that...

for malware, this in fact ensures that no other malware will infect the system while the worm resides in the bowels of Windows. Mador also noted that there are several IRC bots exploiting the security hole patched by MS08-067. "We detect them as Backdoor:Win32/...