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Cisco Online Help in a Slew of Products Could Open Systems to Attack

Cisco's online help system could allow cross-site scripting and a subsequent system takeover due to a vulnerability in several products, the company reported on...

Hole Found in OpenBSD

The open-source operating system OpenBSD has a critical remote kernel buffer overflow vulnerability in its IPv6 protocol stack that can allow for a remote...

OneCare Cured of Mail Eating Disorder

Microsoft on March 11 released a new anti-malware engine to address the problem of Windows Live OneCare swallowing entire mail stores.Users had complained that...

Al-Qaeda Plan to Bomb British Internet Foiled

Scotland Yard has foiled a planned attack on the British Internet by al-Qaeda, according to The Sunday Times.According to reports, authorities carried out a...

Vladuz Back on eBay, Promoting His Upcoming Media Tour

The Romanian hacker who goes by the handle of "Vladuz" on March 13, 10:53 EDT, was back on a German eBay forum, posing as...

Go Daddy Hit with DoS, Not DST

Go Daddy was hit by "significant and sustained" distributed denial of service attacks on Sunday morning—not glitches caused by the switch to daylight-saving time,...

Internet (Mostly) Hale and Hearty After Daylight-Saving Time Switchover

The daylight-saving time switchover was indeed another Y2K—in other words, not much happened.The Internet Storm Center reported on Saturday and Sunday a handful of...

Windows Live Italy Hit by Link Bomb

Sunbelt Software reported on March 7 that the Windows Live search engine in Italy had been taken over by malware writers, with some 95...

Trojan Targeting eBay Motor Buyers

E-mails with legitimate slide shows of cars for sale on eBay are quietly dropping a Trojan that redirects a victim when he or she...

Microsoft to Play Hooky on Patch Tuesday

Microsoft is taking a breather from security, with no security updates coming on this month's Patch Tuesday, March 13.The company posted a note to...