Microsoft Corp. today patched eight vulnerabilities — three of them marked “critical” — in Internet Explorer, Office, Exchange and SQL …
Don’t be a data loss victim
Somebody was siphoning customer financial data from a chain of gas station/convenience stores. The perpetrator covered his tracks so well …
Four security updates due from Microsoft
Microsoft plans to patch critical flaws in its Internet Explorer and Microsoft Exchange Server software this week. In total, the …
HP urges LaserJet users to patch printers
Hewlett-Packard Co. has warned owners of some of its laser printers to update their devices' firmware or risk having remote …
Cisco warns of four WLAN controller vulnerabilities
Cisco issued a security alert warning of a quartet of vulnerabilities affecting all of its wireless LAN controllers, including the …
‘Gears of War’ bug not SafeDisc DRM’s first
The anti-piracy technology that locked out players of the popular Gears of War game was also implicated in a 2007 …
How secure is Firefox?
Mozilla's open source Firefox browser has made a significant dent in Internet Explorer's dominant market share. Much of its popularity …
Malicious Web sites on the rise, AVG notes
Web sites rigged with malicious code are becoming more numerous by the day, but the time those sites are online …
Virtual desktops getting security boost
Businesses looking for safer virtual desktops can cut the risk of attacks if they run their virtual-machine hypervisors directly on …
1 in 3 Windows PCs vulnerable to worm attack
The worm that has infected several million Windows PCs is causing havoc because nearly a third of all systems remain …
Symantec releases patch for application delivery program
Symantec and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) are warning about a serious vulnerability within the company's AppStream product, …
Six worst Internet routing attacks
This list highlights the biggest security incidents involving the Internet's core routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol. Some of these …
Worm attack infected 9 million PCs
Calling the scope of the attack “amazing,” security researchers at F-Secure Friday said that 6.5 million Windows PCs have been …
The Weakest Corporate Security Link
Technology, at the end of the day, is only as secure as the person using it. You can have all …
‘Beast hiding in Microsoft Patch Tuesday vulnerability’
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday dropped in on 2009 with a whisper revealing only a single patch covering three vulnerabilities with the …
Oracle to issue 41 security patches
Oracle will issue 41 security patches next Tuesday addressing vulnerabilities across “hundreds” of its products, the company said in a …
A bumpy ride ahead
Enterprise IT executives are taking the economy's downturn in stride. This not being their first time at the rodeo, they …
SSL Certificate generation at risk
Following the success of researchers last week in creating a false SSL certificate based on VeriSign's RapidSSL brand, the company …
Researchers devise undetectable phishing attack
With the help of about 200 Sony Playstations, an international team of security researchers have devised a way to undermine …
Researchers devise undetectable phishing attack
To do this, they've exploited a bug in the digital certificates used by Web sites to prove that they are …