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Microsoft plans to release 10 security bulletins for Patch Tuesday June 8. The bulletins-three of which are rated critical-cover 34 security vulnerabilities. Six of them affect Windows, including two of the critical ones. The final critical bulletin is for Internet Explorer. Microsoft said it is planning to close two vulnerabilities it warned users about earlier […]

From a stage at the D8 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the company’s privacy policies as he discussed the idea of maintaining the balance between sharing and privacy. “Privacy is a really important issue for us and for the Internet,” Zuckerberg explained in a June 2 interview by Walt […]

Teradata has quietly purchased database virtualization vendor xkoto for an undisclosed sum. Teradata confirmed the acquisition was completed last month. Though Teradata is not saying much publicly about its rationale, xkoto’s GRIDSCALE product load balances all the database servers in a cluster using an active-active arrangement. Based in Boston, xkoto’s technology works on Microsoft SQL […]

Researchers from Intego have uncovered spyware being distributed with numerous free screensavers and applications for Mac OS X. According to Intego, the spyware, detected as OSX/OpinionSpy, records user activity and opens a backdoor on infected systems. The malware is installed by a number of applications and screensavers distributed on sites such as MacUpdate, VersionTracker and […]

A researcher from Trustwave will highlight JBoss server security at the inaugural AthCon security conference this week. In a presentation, Trustwave security consultant Christian Papathanasiou will unveil a new tool for compromising JBoss servers and discuss best practices for protecting JBoss servers. “In essence no vulnerabilities are being exploited per say, [but] due to the […]

Quit Facebook Day was not just a bust. Some 34,000 of Facebook’s hundreds of millions members agreed to quit, ranking the effort somewhere between the movies “Battlefield Earth” and “The Adventures of Pluto Nash” in the annals of all-time flops. Quit Facebook Day had no chance, but not because users don’t care about privacy. Frankly, […]

Security concerns are reportedly hastening an internal move by Google to migrate away from Microsoft Windows. According to the Financial Times, Google has been phasing out Windows since January in response to the infamous Aurora attack. The effort may effectively end the use of Windows by Google’s more than 10,000 global employees. In early January […]

A new clickjacking worm targeting Facebook users is spreading on the social network site. According to Sophos, hundreds of thousands of Facebook users fell victim to the worm during Memorial Day weekend. The ruse relies on social-engineering users into clicking on links with messages that include: “LOL This girl gets OWNED after a POLICE OFFICER […]

An anagram of Facebook, Koobface has remained one of the successful pieces of malware to target social networks. First appearing in 2008, Koobface has targeted users of Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Twitter and other networks. In a new paper, Trend Micro has taken another look at the Koobface botnet (PDF) and some of the changes it […]

Three men have been indicted in what the FBI described as an international cybercrime operation that sold $100 million in rogue antivirus software to victims in more than 60 countries. According to authorities, Bjorn Daniel Sundin, 31, and 40-year-old Shaileshkumar P. Jain owned and operated Innovative Marketing, a company registered in Belize that claimed to […]