2009-11-21
Microsoft unveiled some details about Internet Explorer 9 this week at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. But what does Microsoft have in store for IE users from a security perspective?
2009-11-20
Three men were charged by federal indictment Nov. 19 in connection with attacking Comcast.net and redirecting traffic to sites under their control. The group altered Comcast's DNS records and is estimated to have cost the company more than $128,000.
2009-11-20
Microsoft uncovers a vulnerability in a controversial Google plug-in for Internet Explorer that could be exploited to bypass cross-origin protections. Google patched the issue this week in an update.
2009-11-19
With Chrome OS, Google says it has abandoned the traditional operating system security model and put its focus on using process isolation, verified boot, encryption and system hardening to protect users.
2009-11-19
News Analysis: Google is new to the operating system market, so it has to demonstrate that it understands how to build and maintain a secure Web OS. The history of Windows security has shown there are many avenues of attack against a desktop operating system. There are even more potential attack strategies for an online OS. But whether Google has learned the many hard lessons of Web security is very much in doubt at this point.
2009-11-19
T-Mobile confirmed that an employee at its U.K. subsidiary passed customer data to third-party brokers, potentially leading to a criminal prosecution. Despite the potential damage to customers’ lives, such a data breach is most likely punishable with a fine as opposed to jail time in the U.K. T-Mobile has been dealing with public-relations issues on both ends of the Atlantic, including an incident in which a massive server failure led to Sidekick smartphone users in the U.S. temporarily losing their personal data.
2009-11-19
Netgear offers cost-conscious businesses expanded work force mobility with the ProSafe Wireless-N Dual-Band Access Point, available for $429.
2009-11-18
Mozilla updates its Firefox 3.6 beta to block add-ons from adding code to Firefox's components directory. The move is meant to reduce crashes and will keep vendors from silently installing Firefox add-ons without permission from the user, Mozilla says.
2009-11-18
Police in the U.K. arrested two people tied to the Zeus Trojan, a notorious piece of malware used to steal banking information and another personal data such as passwords for sites like Facebook.
2009-11-17
In a new report released by McAfee, several noted security experts discuss the improving cyber-warfare capabilities of the world's superpowers and the risks facing critical infrastructures.
2009-11-17
The Pirate Bay shuts down its BitTorrent tracker, opting instead for a more decentralized approach.
2009-11-17
A new version of Metasploit is out just weeks after the testing framework was acquired by Rapid7.
2009-11-16
A security researcher demonstrates how an SSL renegotiation vulnerability made public earlier in November could be exploited to steal Twitter log-in credentials.
2009-11-16
Microsoft extends its Windows Marketplace for Mobile to users of Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1, older versions of the smartphone operating system. Microsoft has also added new features to Marketplace for Mobile. The mobile-applications store originally launched on Oct. 6 along with Windows Mobile 6.5, a more robust version of the OS that is still considered by many to be a stopgap measure until Microsoft can roll out Windows Mobile 7 in 2010.
2009-11-16
Microsoft releases an advisory to help users concerned about a new zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The bug was made public last week after Patch Tuesday.
2009-11-16
An annual survey from Infoblox and The Measurement Factory found that many external name servers are still open to recursion, a fact that leaves them vulnerable to being used to launch DDoS attacks. However, the survey also shows a growing interest in DNSSEC.
2009-11-16
Global DataGuard helps cost-conscious businesses secure their operations in the cloud with the impending release of its unified threat management solution.
2009-11-14
Though the ikee worm and other recent incidents have highlighted security risks facing users of jailbroken iPhones, the question remains: If you are using a jailbroken iPhone, just how insecure is it and what can you do about it?
2009-11-13
IBM announced plans for a new virtualization security product that extends protection to multiple layers of the virtual infrastructure by integrating with VMware's VMsafe technology.
2009-11-12
In the latest report on Website vulnerabilities by WhiteHat Security, researchers found 64 percent of Websites have at least one serious vulnerability. The most common flaw - cross-site scripting.
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