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The Storm Worm Is Not Causing the Sky to Fall

The scope of the Storm botnet, made up of zombie computers controlled remotely and used to blanket the world in spam, has been estimated...

Are Campuses Flooded with Zombified Student PCs?

SoftScan, an anti-virus, anti-spam company, told the New York Times recently that zombified machines belonging to college students are behind a rise in spam...

California’s State IT Cooks Up a Safety Hatch

All the craziness with the Feds pushing California's government domain off the continental shelf earlier this week makes you wonder what sort of disaster...

Can Sandboxing Stop Widget Mayhem?

After Finjan came out with a report saying that widgets and gadgets are all plagued with lousy security and stand ready to unleash the...

More .Gov Sites Boobytrapped

I had just finished writing up this story of a European country with a defense agency site that's got its database dangling out for...

Three New Classes of Vulnerabilities with No Cure Whatsoever

LAS VEGAS—I just sat down with Danny Allan, director of security researcher at Web application security company Watchfire, and he summed it up: For...

Mega Apple Update Squeaks iPhone Patch In Before Black Hat Disclosure

LAS VEGAS—Just hours before security researcher Charlie Miller was set to disclose the iPhone's first security holes at Black Hat here on Aug. 1—regardless...

Excel Bugs Affect Office 2004 for Mac

Microsoft has updated its critical security advisory on Excel, put out on its July 10 Patch Tuesday, to include Office 2004 for Mac.Microsoft's MS07-036...

IBM ISS: No SDK Means No(?) iPhone Security Bugs

The allergy to the iPhone security analysts have acquired? IBM Internet Security Systems isn't buying it. As a matter of fact, Neel Mehta, team...

CA Mainframe Security Blacked Out Globally

Computer Associates' Top Secret security product for the mainframe blacked out worldwide on June 16, staying dark for 19 hours and bringing down financial...