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Highly Critical Firefox Vulnerabilities Emerge

Mozilla has released a scad of security bulletins outlining many new vulnerabilities discovered in its Firefox browser. All users of the software have been...

Browsers Represent Bane of Security

A new research paper put together by researchers from Google, IBM and CENL (the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory) puts some serious weight behind...

Online Game Malware Takes Off in June

How's this for instant gratification? Fortinet released its June malware activity report this morning while most people here in the United States were winding...

Sophos Tracks New Mobile Web Site Hacks

Researchers at endpoint security specialist Sophos are warning of a new set of attacks targeted at .MOBI Web pages.The SQL threats highlighted in the...

Messaging Abuse Working Group Pubs Advice

The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, a special interest group focused on lowering the negative impact of spam and e-mail/IM-borne malware (in particular botnets) on...

StopBadware Cites Malware’s China Syndrome

The smaht folks at StopBadware.org--the anti-malware/adware team backed by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society--published some interesting stats earlier this week...

Microsoft, Adobe Issue Critical Patches

The hits just keep on coming, as two of the world's most high-profile software makers were forced to distribute security updates for critical vulnerabilities...

Malware Avalanche Still Gaining Momentum

It's a surprise to very few who follow the malware economy closely, but new metrics have arrived that chart the continued proliferation of the...

Cross-Linking Opening Doors to Malware

The entire foundation of our trust in the Internet has been eroded in recent years by the growing popularity of malware attacks propagated via...

SANS Warns of Critical MS Word Vulnerability

Security researchers are reporting a newly discovered vulnerability in Microsoft Word that could potentially allow for remote execution by hackers or malware.Detailed in a...