Mozilla's next update for Firefox, slated to ship Tuesday, will check for outdated versions of Flash Player, a frequent target …
Microsoft IIS Servers Vulnerable to FTP Attack
A critical flaw in the FTP component of Microsoft Internet Information Service (IIS) can allow an attacker to execute malicious …
Microsoft promises patch for critical Web server bug
Microsoft said it is working on a patch for a bug in its popular Web server software, but it's unlikely …
Malware, e-mail scams on the rize: Fortinet
Fortinet announced its August 2009 Threatscape Report, vacations may be wrapping up towards the end of summer, but there was …
Microsoft: Upgrade Messenger or else
Microsoft will force an upgrade on users of its Windows Live Messenger instant messaging software in September to plug a …
Trojan attacks up, phishing attacks down this year, IBM finds
Spam-based phishing attacks declined noticeably during the first half of the year, but cyber-criminals may simply be shifting to other …
Cisco downplays WLAN vulnerability
Cisco Systems Inc. downplayed a vulnerability in some of its wireless access points, saying that there is no risk of …
Intel acquires software company RapidMind
Intel has acquired software company RapidMind in an effort to push development of programs that can exploit the power of …
Microsoft reaches out at China hacker conference
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 …