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According to a Wall Street Journal story, U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers Inc. appears to have been a victim of a fraud in which swindlers used forged documents from one of Japan's biggest trading...
Softpedia is reporting that Apple's OS was hacked...pretty quick...due to a challenge. At 12:38pm local time, the team of Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Mark Daniel from Independent Security Evaluators...
TJX Cos., which last year disclosed a major data-security breach, agreed to have its systems that safeguard customers' credit-card data audited every other year for the next two decades under a settlement...
SIIA has released their 2007 Year in Review . Some of the interesting stats: The largest states, naturally, are home to the largest number of piracy cases. California leads with 18%. Texas and New York...
The laptop with personal information on about 600,000 people was stolen from an officer in the Royal Navy. A laptop containing personal information on about 600,000 people was stolen from an officer in...
Thieves have stolen two laptops containing unencrypted Social Security numbers of 337,000 Tennessee residents. The theft of a laptop containing Social Security numbers of Nashville, Tennessee, area voters...
Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week. Speaking at a conference of security...
Part of security software vendor CA's website was hacked last week and was redirecting visitors to a malicious website hosted in China. Although the problem now appears to have been corrected, cached...
Released via Software Update are new versions of iTunes (7.5) & Quicktime (7.3). Updates are as follows: iTunes 7.5 - 41.3MB iTunes 7.5 features the ability to activate iPhone wherever service is offered...
Apple has taken another swing at fixing a troublesome spate of QuickTime vulnerabilities. The company released an update for the Windows version of QuickTime media player on Wednesday afternoon to patch...
SECURITY FIRM Sophos has warned that an email doing the rounds and purporting to be written by the Dalai Lama has a malicious attachment.Beware of this kind of email “Dear Friends & Colleagues, Please...
Researcher Aviv Raff said he has found a way to defeat the patch that AOL issued to address an IM vulnerability. A day after users of AOL's instant messaging service were advised to upgrade to address...
How many do you remember... ELK CLONER, 1982: Regarded as the first virus to hit personal computers worldwide, "Elk Cloner" spread through Apple II floppy disks and displayed a poem written by...
Sony has ceased production of three Microvault USB memory key models that pose a potential security risk to Windows computers. The spokesperson said that the elecontronics manufacturer stopped shipments...
Update to the blog on Ohio state data on a missing laptop...check out what Gov. Ted is reporting now: Ohio Governor Ted Strickland today announced the state has determined that additional information is...
Interesting Police Blotter over at CNet. What happened? An employee quits the company he works for to go to work for someone else. The problem? When he returned his laptop, he had deleted all of his files...
Seems a rash of data lately has been vulnerable to theft. Are your computers encrypted? What about storage media? Verizon Communications has notified employees that the theft of two company laptop computers...
He can find George Bush senior's social security number and Leonardo DiCaprio's mother's maiden name in under 15 seconds, and led the FBI on a three-year manhunt as he hacked his way into the world's biggest...
The flurry of security issues involving Apple’s Mac OS X over the past few days once again hammers home the fact that no technology platform is invulnerable to attacks, whatever the perception might...
Interesting blog posting … “When I saw all the headlines this week about a new Symantec report contradicting popular perception that Firefox was the secure alternative to Microsoft Internet...
Code has been published that exploits one of the flaws patched in the latest Firefox and Mozilla suite releases. Computer code that could be used to attack Firefox, Mozilla Suite and Netscape users has...
From Security Pipeline : As spyware, viruses and Trojan horses continue to find their way through Internet Explorer's overstressed defenses, many users inside and outside the corporate world have moved...
There’s an article posted on Eweek detailing groups trying to develop guidelines to define spyware. I don’t get it. The opening quote reads “Even as the menace grows, security vendors...
According to C|Net, "Multiple vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to install malicious code or steal personal data have been discovered in the Mozilla Suite and the Firefox open-source browser...
I realize we just went through a patch Tuesday, but articles are already circulating about an exploit that didn’t get patched. “The vulnerability, which was not one of eight patched by Microsoft...
Tucked inside the just-released MSN Messenger are features to stymie the spread of some of the IM worms that have been knocking Microsoft's instant messaging clients, a security firm said Friday. MSN Messenger...
And of all places, it’s posted on LinuxInsider. Go figure. It discusses the most recent vulnerability discovered in Firefox. It echos what most of us have been saying all along. It’s only a...
Virus writers have created a third mobile phone virus capable of replicating via MMS messages. The Mabir worm, which targets Symbian Series 60 phones, is not spreading, but its ability to propagate via...
A worm that first disguised itself as an e-mail from computer vendors is now attempting to trick MSN Messenger users into executing malicious files. The Chod.B worm, which was first discovered on April...
Two vulnerabilities were reported in in the Sun Java Plug-in. A malicious applet can access local files and applications or interfere with other running applets. A remote user can create an applet that...
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