Ryan Naraine

Its becoming a bit crowded in the enterprise anti-spyware business. One week after Symantec Corp. hopped aboard the anti-spyware gravy train, two new companies—SurfControl plc. and Tenebril Inc.—announced plans to jostle for elbow room in the burgeoning sector. SurfControl, known for its policy management and filtering software, said its new SurfControl Enterprise Threat Shield would […]

Users of the ubiquitous Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat programs are at risk of a local file detection flaw, according to an alert from a private security research outfit. Adobe Systems Inc. earlier this month sneaked out a fix for the vulnerability and recommended that users upgrade to versions 7.0.1 of the freely available programs. […]

Streaming-media pioneer RealNetworks on Tuesday borrowed a page from Napsters playbook to help fuel its digital music battle with Apple. The Seattle-based RealNetworks Inc. announced a new “to go” option for its Rhapsody music service to allow subscribers to transfer monthly song rentals to portable devices. The new Rhapsody to Go service is priced at […]

Yahoo has shipped new versions of its MusicMatch Jukebox media player to fix security holes that could put users at risk of buffer overflow attacks. In an online advisory, Yahoo Inc. strongly recommended that users upgrade to avoid code-execution and cross-site scripting attacks. “Some potential impacts of a buffer overflow and cross-site scripting may include […]

Web services security pioneer Forum Systems on Monday announced plans to add virus protection to its flagship XML Firewall product. Forum Systems Inc., of Salt Lake City, will partner with Computer Associates International Inc. to integrate CAs eTrust anti-virus scanning engine with its Forum XWall Web Services Firewall. The deal paves the way for what […]

Software engineers at Microsoft Corp.s security research center on Thursday confirmed a potentially dangerous security hole in fully patched Windows 2000 systems that could put users at risk of malicious hacker attacks. The Redmond, Wash., software maker was forced to go public about the unpatched vulnerability after a private security research company posted details and […]

Digital media delivery outfit RealNetworks Inc. on Wednesday released patches for a high-risk security flaw in several versions of its widely deployed RealPlayer software. The Seattle, Wash.-based company said the flaw could allow an attacker to run arbitrary or malicious code on unpatched machines. “RealNetworks has received no reports of machines compromised as a result […]

Researchers at the University of Florida have designed an Internet-worm early warning system that offers a new approach to pinpointing the first sign of a malicious network attack. Shigang Chen and Sanjay Ranka, professors in the universitys Computer and Information Science and Engineering department, outlined the plumbing for the system in a research paper (here […]

Security researchers on Tuesday issued a warning for multiple vulnerabilities in the open-source CVS, a popular program that allows developers to keep track of different development versions of source code. The most serious of the flaws could allow a remote compromise of unpatched servers, the open-source Concurrent Versions System Project confirmed in an advisory. The […]

Apple Computer Inc. has shipped an update for its flagship Mac OS X operating system to address a range of security holes, including a code execution flaw in the Safari Web browser. The Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker said the vulnerabilities could be exploited to put users at risk of security Bypass, privilege escalation, denial-of-service and […]

Symantec on Monday became the last of the big-name anti-virus vendors to hop aboard the anti-spyware gravy train. Taking a page out of rival Microsoft Corp.s playbook, Symantec Corp. rolled out a free public beta of the new Norton Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware Edition, adding spyware-detection capabilities to a product suite that already features virus […]

Microsoft over the weekend pushed out an update for its flagship Windows Media Player to provide protection from a well-known spyware infection threat. The update comes more than three months after Microsoft Corp. promised a fix and brings an end to an episode that raised questions about the companys handling of a legitimate security threat […]