Tuesday, 08 September 2026

At Black Hat 2013 in Las Vegas yesterday, Paul Stone, a senior consultant at Context Information Security presented details of new vulnerabilities and threats to security and privacy as a result of HTML 5 features in the latest generation of web browsers. His talk entitled, Pixel Perfect Timing Attacks with HTML 5, showed how cross-browser vulnerabilities in Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox can be used to access browsing histories and read data from websites after visitors have logged in.

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Farnborough: Datum, the environmentally intelligent and carrier neutral datacentre provider has appointed Neil Baldwin as their new Account Director and Lexie Gower as their Marketing Manager for the company’s leading edge 1,000 rack capacity datacentre. Neil will play a key role in developing Datum’s Client base and partner relationships, bringing over 20 years of international experience in IT and Telecoms. With a career that includes Cisco Systems and SAP, Lexie brings a depth of experience in technology marketing to strengthen Datum’s brand and broaden awareness of its business-class datacentre services.

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London, UK and New York: The global enterprise tech startups awards, The Tech Trailblazers have announced a partnership with AfriLabs (@Afrilabs), a pan-African network of technology and innovation hubs promoting the growth and development of the African technology sector. AfriLabs believe that by working together, individual labs improve the chances of success and create greater opportunities for its members.

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The recently disclosed Android master key vulnerability by CTO of BlueBox, Jeff Forristal, allows an attacker to inject malicious code into an Android application without the need to alter or invalidate the application’s digital signature. This impacts almost all current Android implementations and to make matters worse, patches cannot be issued directly by Google, but require individual handset manufacturers to provide patches for their unique Android implementation. To date, some have provided patches, while others haven’t.

 

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