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It's hard to believe that tomorrow will be April 1st. Along with the many jokes and pranks, the threat of the Conficker worm looms. Conficker is designed to take advantage of several weaknesses in ... More >
Firefox released 3.0.8 to fix a vulnerability in its browser software. Guido Landi, a security researcher, published his attack on several security sites last week and put Mozilla developers into a ... More >
It's hard to believe that IPv6 is 14 years old, yet I don't personally know a single company that has migrated to it. I did some quick research and found that quite a few companies are using IPv6 or ... More >
Apple's Safari and Internet Explorer were the first to go down in round one of the Pwn2Own hacking contest being held at the CanSecWest Conference being held in Vancouver, B.C. I first mentioned the... More >
Last week, Gmail released a new feature called " Undo Send ." Here is the scenario: You type up a nasty e-mail with a few expletives in it. In your haste, you click on "Mom" from your contact list, w... More >
Finjan, a company specializing in the detection, analysis and research of Web threats, released its Cyber-Crime Intelligence Report today. The report focuses on how cyber-criminals lure unsuspecting ... More >
A vulnerability in the Intel CPU chipset could allow hackers the ability to launch a System Management Mode (SMM) attack by way of CPU caching. The attack would allow privileged escalation from ri... More >
I love the fact that someone is auditing the Internal Revenue Service. I guess I have to be careful not to pick on the agency too much before my taxes are due, but I just can't help myself. Last week... More >
2008 was a banner year for people who exploited systems from within organizations, or internal threats. In August of 2008, an employee at Countrywide Mortgage stole personal information from two mi... More >
Netbooks are expected to be "the growth " area for hardware manufacturers in 2009 and beyond. I have always said, with growth comes risk. Unfortunately, the risk in this case is to the people... More >
This week Google announced to users of its Google Docs service that they may have inadvertently shared some of their documents without their knowledge. According to a note by Google quoted o... More >
Well, it's that time again. You can set your calendar by it -- Microsoft's monthly patch release . Redmond released three security updates yesterday, including one critical patch that is highly reco... More >
Kaspersky Labs, the anti-virus software development company, has recently released its malware report titled, " Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Malware evolution 2008 ." For malware developers, 2008 was... More >
A friend of mine sent me a link to an interesting article over the weekend and insisted that I write a post on it. He said that it had the potential to affect a lot of people. I read the article and ... More >
Twitter, the social networking service, claims it recently fixed a vulnerability that allowed its users to create fake posts on other users' pages or sign up other users for text messaging without ... More >
You are doing all the right things; you scan for viruses in e-mail; you limit attachments; you have an acceptable use policy that each employee signs yearly; you train on e-mail usage at new employee... More >
After working in IT for over 24 years, writing about companies that have been hacked and people that have had account information stolen, I have never been personally affected by any of it, until now... More >
Starting this month, Verizon Business, a division of Verizon Communications, will begin offering its Denial of Service (DoS) Defense Service that it currently offers in the United States to eight a... More >
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