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Shavlik Offers Free Patch Management Tools to SMB

Small-to-midsized businesses have smaller IT budgets but face the same security threats as the larger enterprises. In fact, they may be more vulnerable to...

Sony Attackers Stole Info on 2,500 Consumers from ‘Old Server’

The bad news doesn't stop at Sony, as the company admitted another server was compromised. Considering how many people have already had their information...

Hackers Compromise bin Laden Live-Blogger’s Site

The man who inadvertently live-blogged on Twitter the Navy SEAL operation that took out Osama bin Laden on May 1 received an unexpected gift...

German Software Company Threatens Security Researcher With Lawsuit

A German software company has threatened legal action against a security researcher for privately reporting a critical vulnerability.Lawyers from Magix AG sent "Acidgen," an...

DoJ Drops Case Against Wiretapping Whisteblower

The government has dropped its years-long investigation against a lawyer who blew the whistle on the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program. Criminal charges will...

Oak Ridge Still Not Back Online

Ten days after IT administrators cut off Internet access at a federal research facility in Tennessee after a successful spear phishing attack, the laboratory...

Oracle Fixes Java.com Security Flaw

After an ethical hacking group exposed a security flaw in Java.com, Oracle quickly patched it. This is the third Website belonging to Oracle with...

Kaspersky CEO: Stop Talking About My Family

Kaspersky Lab has finally commented on reports that the CEO's son may have been kidnapped. It told Russian media to stop talking about it."Kaspersky...

Cyber-Thief Hackett Pleads Guilty to Credit Card Theft

And yet another cyber-thief faces prison time.Rogelio Hacket, Jr, is the latest cyber-criminal to admitting to stealing credit card numbers and selling them to...

Microsoft to Disclose Third Party Vulnerabilities

Microsoft will begin disclosing vulnerabilities it finds in third-party Windows software in addition to its own products. It started off with two bugs in...