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AVG has updated its small business antivirus software to offer enhanced Web and social-networking protection and improved detection rates, reports V3.co.uk . AVG said it used customer feedba... More >
According to Computerworld , research by Slovenian security company Acros Security indicates that Internet Explorer users running Windows XP are particularly vulnerable to "DLL load hijacking," wh... More >
More than 200 former University of Florida students have been notified that their personal information may be at risk. According to The Miami Herald , 239 students' information was compromis... More >
According to The Portland Press Herald , the Maine Department of Education is is deleting all student Social Security numbers and ordering an outside review of the security of its data-collection s... More >
Following an admission last week that a vulnerability in ASP.Net's encryption was being actively exploited, Microsoft has delivered an emergency patch , reports Computerworld . As the MS1... More >
A security breach at the New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center has exposed the personal information of as many as 6,800 former patients , reports boston.com . The inform... More >
While many business professionals concede the value of social media and collaboration, they are right to be concerned about security threats associated with Web 2.0, according to a new McAfee-commiss... More >
Victims of consumer data integrator ChoicePoint's most recent security breach soon will be getting their settlement checks from the Federal Trade Commission, but they may hardly be pleased. eSecuri... More >
On the heels of reports that the Stuxnet worm has infected at least 30,000 of Iran's Windows PCs , Liam O Murchu, manager of operations on Symantec's security response team, says he has discovered a... More >
Today, the Department of Homeland Security will test the nation's response to a cyber attack with a simulated large-scale attack on critical infrastructure. According to TG Daily , the goal of Cybe... More >
Cisco has warned that cyber crooks have targeted LinkedIn users with a scheme designed to get their bank account information, reports The Sydney Morning Herald . The people behind the attac... More >
Hackers Christopher Lewis and Michael Nebel , who were convicted of defacing Comcast's website two years ago, have been sentenced to 18 months in prison, according to Computerworld . The pai... More >
Computerworld reports that Iranian officials have confirmed that the Stuxnet worm has infected at least 30,000 Windows PCs in the country. Symanetc's research shows that nearly 60 percent o... More >
IID (Internet Identity) has announced the results of the first independent study into the deployment of DNSSEC across a majority of .gov domains, and it's not good. According to this press re... More >
A recent government crackdown in China seems to have forced many botnet operators to resurface in Russia , according to M86 Security. V3.co.uk reports that in the past month 5,000 new spam domains ... More >
Computerworld reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched an investigation into the "Here You Have" worm that plagued inboxes earlier this month. Shortly after news of the... More >
Cisco has released an update to address 12 vulnerabilities in its Internetwork Operating System , reports Computerworld . Cisco says the bugs could be used to possibly crash the router. &nbs... More >
Computerworld reports that Maine's Supreme Court has handed down a ruling that consumers affected by the Hannaford Bros. data breach cannot collect damages from the company unless they suffered un... More >
According to a new MessageLabs Intelligence Report from Symantec, workers are 35 percent more likely to violate corporate surfing policies when they are on the road, rather than in the office. &nbs... More >
Testing firm Veracode says developers are not meeting industry security standards when creating new software. V3.co.uk reports that Veracode collected data on 2,900 applications and found t... More >
Twitter is blaming a security flaw that redirected users to third-party websites without their consent on a site upgrade , according to TG Daily . As we reported on our Network Security Edg... More >
Symantec says its research shows that Stuxnet malware is not only controlled via a command and control infrastructure, but can also spread via a peer-to-peer communications channel , reports Inform... More >
Microsoft is warning users of a critical bug in ASP.Net that could be exploited by attackers to hijack encrypted Web sessions and steal usernames and passwords from websites, reports Computerworld... More >
Apple has released Security Update 2010-006 for Snow Leopard. PCWorld.com reports that the update addresses one specific bug in Mac OS X 10.6.4's AFP file-sharing implementation. The flaw... More >
More than 7,000 Rice University students and staff members are at risk following the theft of a storage device containing the names, Social Security numbers and other personally identifying informat... More >
Adobe has moved up the delivery of a patch for a critical Flash Player vulnerability , and will patch the flaw today , according to Computerworld . As we reported last week , the flaw that ... More >
In an effort to provide additional protection against phishing and malware attacks, PCWorld.com reports that Google has introduced a two-factor authentication option to Google Apps . According to ... More >
The Los Angeles Times reports that insurance applicant Patrick Magorien has filed suit against Anthem Blue Cross insurance , claiming that it failed to protect his confidential information from com... More >
The "2010 Top Cyber Security Risks Report" from HP's TippingPoint DVLabs, Qualys and The SANS Institute finds that attackers are increasing their use of complex obfuscation techniques for PDF explo... More >
New research by security vendor AVG uncovered nearly 20,000 compromised Web pages belonging to the top 50 social-networking sites. According to V3.co.uk , Facebook was home to 11,701 of the... More >
According to Computerworld , Google has fixed 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome , including one rated as "critical" on the Mac. Of the remaining bugs, six were ranked as "high" and three were pegged as ... More >
Security firm RamzAfzar has crafted a patch for a critical bug in Adobe Reader that hackers are already exploiting, reports Computerworld . Adobe warned of the bug, which is in Reader's and... More >
According to Panda Lab's "Social Media Risk Index for Small to Medium Sized Businesses," a third of SMBs have been hit by malware from social networks . CNET News reports that Facebook took ... More >
Apple has patched a pair of flaws in QuickTime that it has known about for months. One is in the QuickTime plug-in used by Microsoft's Internet Explorer. HP's TippingPoint originally reporte... More >
McAfee warns that users searching for free music may be opening themselves up to malware attacks. According to V3.co.uk , it may not be the names of popular music groups that pose a heightene... More >
Siemens says the Stuxnet worm, which is designed to attack Siemens industrial control systems, has infected at least 14 plants , according to Computerworld . However, Siemens says that the worm has... More >
According to a survey by security firm Imperva and security research firm Securosis, the best way to reduce the number of data breaches involves technology to protect applications and databases alo... More >
According to eWEEK , security researchers say that the Stuxnet worm has been targeting four zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows in an effort to infect industrial control systems. In July , ... More >
The personal information of more than 7,000 students attending City College of New York may have been compromised following the theft of a laptop last month, reports eSecurity Planet . The ... More >
Security firm Damballa is warning about a commercial, on-demand DDoS botnet that has been growing at the rate of about 10,000 infected machines every day for the past several months. Computerworld... More >
eWEEK reports that Adobe is warning of a zero-day flaw that affects Flash Player versions 10.1.82.76 and earlier on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris and Android operating systems. According to ... More >
According to Computerworld , an anti-U.S. hacker, known as Iraq Resistance, has taken responsibility for a fast-spreading e-mail worm that crippled corporate networks last week. As we repor... More >
According to PandaLabs, the research arm of security software vendor Panda Security, scammers are creating 57,000-plus new malicious websites each week to steal passwords and banking or credit card... More >
Microsoft has stepped up to offer help in protecting users against a recent zero-day attack against Adobe's Reader and Acrobat products. According to Computerworld , Microsoft's Enhanced M... More >
An e-mail virus with the subject line "Here you have" has been plaguing inboxes, reports ABC News . Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research at McAfee, explains that it's essent... More >
Microsoft's September Patch Tuesday will include fixes for 13 vulnerabilities that affect Windows, Internet Information Services, and Microsoft Office, reports CNET News . Four of the bulletins a... More >
Computerworld reports that Apple has patched three vulnerabilities in Safari , including what most researchers are calling a "DLL load hijacking" bug. With its updates to Safari 5.0.2 and Sa... More >
Apple's iOS 4.1 update for its iPhone and iPod Touch fixes 24 security vulnerabilities . According to Computerworld , 19 of the bugs are tagged with the phrase "arbitrary code execution," Ap... More >
Computerworld reports that Adobe is warning users about an unpatched bug in its Reader and Acrobat products. According to the advisory : A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader 9.3.4 and ... More >
A new report by Symantec shows that cyber crime has become a widespread global problem. "The Norton Cybercrime Report: The Human Impact" found that more than 65 percent of the 7,000 participants in ... More >
Facebook says it has fixed a bug that allowed a spamming worm to automatically post messages to users' walls. According to Computerworld , the scam pushed surveys that offered Best Buy and ... More >
Google is blaming a bug that turned Gmail users into unintentional spammers on a routing system update. The problem, which started Aug. 19, affected 2.5 percent of users. While the bug, whic... More >
Mozilla has addressed 15 vulnerabilities in Firefox , including 11 labeled as critical, reports Computerworld . One patch addressed a flaw that attackers could exploit to bypass a site's cro... More >
U.S. District Judge Janet Hall has sentenced a Nigerian man to 12 years in prison for sending out bogus e-mails offering victims big bucks if they helped him move cash to the United States. ... More >
According to Computerworld , Microsoft is investigating a 2-year-old bug in Internet Explorer 8 that can allow hackers to hijack Web mail accounts, steal data and send illicit tweets. The v... More >
PCWorld.com reports that Secunia has updated its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) so that it silently looks for missing patches and applies them from multiple vendors soon after their release. &n... More >
Despite the fact that researchers were able to shut down 20 of 30 command and control servers being used by the Pushdo botnet, security experts say it has not stopped spammers. eWEEK report... More >
To combat common security exploits used by malware, Microsoft has released the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 2.0 , which adds two new mitigations to the four already supported in the... More >
To help users kick spammers out of legitimate accounts, Facebook has launched a new security feature that allows users to see which computers and devices are logged into their Facebook accounts, re... More >
According to Computerworld , Heartland Payment Systems will pay Discover $5 million to settle claims stemming from the massive data breach disclosed by the payment processor last year. He... More >
As we reported on our Network Security Edge site, researchers at the University of California-Santa Barbara and Germany’s Ruhr-University Bochum managed to cripple the PushDo botnet . Now, they're... More >
Starting today, reports Computerworld , Abysssec Security Research plans to kick off a "Month Of Abysssec Undisclosed Bugs," in which the group will target unpatched vulnerabilities in software fr... More >
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