Microsoft Corp. staged with Chinese security researchers at a Beijing hacker conference, aiming to build ties in a country that …
Windows WINS attacks in the wild
The “critical” WINS vulnerability that Microsoft issued a patch for last week is now being exploited actively in the wild, …
IE8 whips rivals in blocking malware sites
Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 8 again trounced rival browsers in a test of their malware-blocking abilities, catching 81% of attack-code-infected …
Kaspersky launches new Internet Security and Anti-Virus
Kaspersky Lab unveiled its new generation of solutions designed to protect home PC users from IT threats based on a new …
Microsoft knew of critical Office ActiveX bug in '07
Three of the critical vulnerabilities Microsoft patched Tuesday in ActiveX controls for Office were first reported to the company two …
Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla patches put heavy load on IT
Windows took it on the chin Tuesday as Microsoft released nine patches, five labeled critical, as part of its Patch …
Apple patches 6 Safari security vulnerabilities
A month after it last patched Safari, Apple plugged six security holes, four of them critical, in its Mac and …
VMware buys SpringSource in cloud move
A move intended to capitalize on the budding cloud application deployment trend will unite virtualization vendor VMware with Java framework …
Expect hacker attacks on XML flaws, analyst warns
One day after reports of vulnerabilities in XML libraries, an analyst is warning companies not to ignore the danger of …
Apple patches 18 Mac vulnerabilities
Apple patched 18 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, including half a dozen that could let hackers hijack machines by duping …
XML flaw threatens apps built with Sun, Apache, Python libraries
Vulnerabilities discovered in XML libraries from Sun, Apache Software Foundation and Python Software Foundation could result in successful denial-of-service attacks …
eCards Flood Cyberspace in Fortinet July ’09 Threatscape Report
Fortinet has announced that its July 2009 Threatscape Report showed aggressive eCard spam activity throughout the reporting period. The FortiGuard …
Mozilla patches three public Firefox bugs
Mozilla patched Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.0 to quash three security vulnerabilities, including a pair unveiled last week at Black …
Adobe patches 12 Flash bugs, 3 caused by Microsoft
Adobe patched 12 vulnerabilities in Flash Player, including three it inherited from faulty Microsoft development code and one that hackers …
IBM, HP use big discounts to woo Sun customers
IBM and HP are trying to lure server and storage customers away from Sun Microsystems by exploiting uncertainty caused by …
Adobe confirms Flash contains Microsoft dev code bug
Adobe stepped forward to acknowledge that it's the first major third-party vendor to have used Microsoft's flawed development code in …
iPhone SMS attack to be unleashed at Black Hat
Apple has just over a day left to patch a bug in it's iPhone software that could let hackers take …
Some SMS networks vulnerable to attack
Flaws in the way some mobile-phone networks handle SMS (short message service) signaling data could leave them open to a …
Researchers clam up about Microsoft’s rush patches
Microsoft Corp. has dropped a cone of silence over several security researchers who have recently divulged details of the vulnerabilities …
Microsoft rushes to fix IE kill-bit bypass attack
Microsoft has been forced to issue emergency patches for its Windows operating system after researchers discovered a way to bypass …