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Microsoft to Fix Development with Lessons Learned from ANI

After all the work Microsoft did leveraging the Security Development Lifecycle, why didn't SDL catch the animated cursor vulnerability in Windows Vista?According to Adrian...

Image Spam Uses Photo-Sharing Site to Sneak Under Radar

Secure Computing is reporting that it has detected a new form of image spam that has taken an evolutionary leap over past image spam,...

Critical Photoshop Bug Out

A highly critical vulnerability that can allow attackers to hijack a user's system has been reported in Adobe Photoshop.A Secunia advisory said the vulnerability...

QuickTime Bug Affects All Java-Enabled Browsers

The QuickTime bug revealed at CanSecWest last week turns out to affect everything that's Java-enabled and that has QuickTime installed, including IE 6 and...

Apparent Troll Claims to Have Snatched QuickTime Exploit at Security Show

A blogger using the name "Infosecsellout" has stirred up the security community by claiming to be in possession of wireless packets sniffed from CanSecWest—the...

MS’ e-Threat Fight Goes Global

Microsoft has unveiled what's it's calling its Malware Protection Center: a new think tank comprising security and threat experts that will provide global malware...

Emancipation Holiday Causes Computers to Hiccup on Tax Day

It's not quite another Y2K, but some computers' failure to take into account the Washington-celebrated Emancipation Day 2007 may throw a monkey wrench into...

Mac Hacked Via Safari Browser in Pwn-2-Own Contest

A zero-day vulnerability in Safari, the default browser for Apple's Macintosh operating system, allowed two MacBooks to crumble before the onslaught of a CanSecWest...

List of Malicious MS DNS Flaw Exploits Still Growing

Microsoft on Thursday night added to its Malicious Software Encyclopedia four new malicious programs attempting to exploit the unpatched Domain Name System flaw in...

Impress Chicks: Hack Your Car’s GPS

It is now possible to plant a bullfight on the highway to block your parents from coming home too early (SatNav Code 1456), plant...