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Its Time to Standardize Vulnerability Day

Ive seen it coming for a while now. The second Tuesday of the month may be Microsoft patch day, but its evolved into Industry...

Security Alerts Roundup: IE, Skype, Winamp

POSSIBLE IE BROWSER BUGA private security researcher has discovered a possible remote code execution bug in the way Microsoft Corp.s Internet Explorer browser renders...

Workarounds Released for XP SP2 Flaw

The Microsoft Security Response Center late Saturday released a security advisory to offer pre-patch workarounds for a denial-of-service flaw in Windows XP Service Pack...

Oracles 10g Encryption Feature Is a Fine First Step

The most timely feature of Oracles newest release, 10g R2, has to be Transparent Data Encryption. When you consider all the recent data privacy...

Microsoft Investigates New XP SP2 Flaw

Microsoft has acknowledged that it is working on a patch for a potentially serious security hole in fully patched versions of Windows XP Service...

SpreadFirefox Site Hacked, Data Leaked

The Mozilla Foundation marketing site SpreadFirefox.com, which is designed to promote adoption of Firefox, was hacked over the weekend, officials said in an e-mail...

Coalition Publishes Spyware Guide

Like pornography, spyware has been one of those things that most people cant define but know when they see. No longer. The Anti-Spyware Coalition, an...

VeriSign Buys Security Firm iDefense for $40M

VeriSign Inc. said on Thursday that it has acquired security intelligence firm iDefense for $40 million in cash. iDefense specializes in developing security intelligence about...

Security Patch Deluge: A Double-Edged Sword

Patch Tuesday this month was an IT administrators worse nightmare. Microsoft Corp. patched three "critical" flaws. Oracle Corp. plugged 49 database server holes. The Mozilla...

Domain Hijacking Takes ICANN Spotlight

Web sites both big and small face the risk of having their Web addresses stolen because of flaws in the way domain names are...