Microsoft Corp. staged with Chinese security researchers at a Beijing hacker conference, aiming to build ties in a country that …
SQL injection attacks led to Heartland, Hannaford breaches
This week's disclosure that the huge data thefts at Heartland Payment Systems and other retailers resulted from SQL injection attacks …
Microsoft IE 8 shines in Web browser security test
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 rated tops among five browsers tested by NSS Labs for effectiveness in protecting against malware and …
Hackers put social networks such as Twitter in crosshairs
Web sites such as Twitter are becoming increasingly favored by hackers as places to plant malicious software in order to …
IEEE program brings security vendors together
The IEEE standards group announced an effort to bring security vendors together to collaborate on early-stage technologies in a fast …
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 …
Android security chief: Mobile-phone attacks coming
As smartphones become more popular, they're going to get some unwanted attention from criminals, Google's head of Android security said …
Cisco IPS 7.0 raises the bar
Cisco is shipping what it claims is the first intrusion-prevention system (IPS) to correlate IP reputation filtering with signature-based intrusion …
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 …
Twitter now blocking bad URLs, but imperfectly
Hoping to deal with a growing problem, Twitter has quietly introduced a feature to prevent users from posting links to …
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 …
Twitter: A Growing Security Minefield
In June, the world watched as tweets from the streets of Tehran flooded Twitter. Frequent Twitter users–and people who hadn't …
McAfee updates managed cloud security service
McAfee's latest version of its managed security service includes new features that let companies scan their Web sites for vulnerabilities …
Microsoft working on quick-fix capability for IT patch tools
Under the dark cloud of recent zero-day attacks, Microsoft is quickly working to update its enterprise patching tools to incorporate …
Mozilla quashes first critical bug in Firefox 3.5
Mozilla on late Friday issued the first patch for Firefox 3.5, fixing a flaw that went public Monday. One noted …
Will new top-level domains promote cybersquatting?
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is hosting two meetings this week – one in New York …
Microsoft working on quick-fix capability for IT patch tools
Under the dark cloud of recent zero-day attacks, Microsoft is quickly working to update its enterprise patching tools to incorporate …
SSL hack vulnerability details to emerge
Confidential online connections like banking transactions made from public wireless hotspots remain vulnerable to attacks despite improved security that was …
Firefox 3.5’s first vulnerability ‘self-inflicted,’ says scientist
Mozilla confirmed the first security vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 and said that the bug could be used to hijack a …