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Isn't this a surprise... Mac users, get ready to fend off new malware threats: Hackers have set their sights on you, says a report from security vendor Sophos. Until 2007, criminal cybergangs had largely...
From a story at FoxNews.com : HARRISBURG, Pa. — Hackers infiltrated Pennsylvania's government Web site on Friday, forcing administrators to shut down nearly the entirely site for several hours. Hackers...
Security firm disclosed Wednesday that a security hole in Vonage's VoIP system could allow an attacker to reroute and effectively hijack phone calls. "This leaves the Vonage customer subject to...
Sometimes it takes more than one or even two kicks at the can to fix a security issue even when the source code is open. Such is apparently the case with vulnerability in the Mozilla Firefox uniform resource...
In the month of August to date, there have been 38 malicious-code attacks on instant-messaging networks, double the number experienced in July. According to IM security and compliance vendor Akonix , IM...
Hackers stole information from the U.S. Department of Transportation and several U.S. corporations by seducing employees with fake job-listings on ads and e-mail, a computer security firm said on Monday...
New IM worm targets Skype users A new instant-messaging pest that spreads using the chat feature in Skype has surfaced, security firm F-Secure warned Monday. The worm, dubbed Pykse.A, is similar to threats...
Homeland Security-sponsored Common Weakness Enumeration aims to create a single list of security bugs and software weaknesses A U.S. Department of Homeland Security-sponsored plan designed to create a...
An upcoming version of Firefox will include protection against phishing scams, using technology that might come from Google. The phishing shield is a key new security feature planned for Firefox 2, slated...
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 wrote earlier about a security hole that has apparently been identified in Windows XP SP2 IE. Security software company Symantec Corp. has now issued a vulnerability alert about the hole and cited Ivgi...
Michael Holzt has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to trick users into executing malicious files. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing...
Slashdot reports: An anonymous reader writes " Flexbeta.net compares Microsoft's new spyware fighting tool, Windows AntiSpyware , to Ad-Aware and SpyBot S&D ; the two leading spyware tools on the market...
Three unpatched flaws in Internet Explorer now pose a higher danger, a security company warned after code to exploit one of the issues was published to the Internet. Secunia said Friday it has raised its...
Mark my words. Mozilla products will start getting beat up more. I'm predicting 2005 will be a bad year for the open source products as hackers turn their attention to source code. Mozilla and Firefox...
Do any of these numbers surprise you? Researchers at Sophos scanned all spam messages received at its global network of honeypots throughout 2004 month and at the top of the list was the United States...
I wrote earlier how my afternoon was “rescheduled” with a phone call from a new computer/internet user seeking help. I'm now on a quest to give this user a “crash course” on how...
I've heard from a lot of folks that GMAIL just isn't cutting it. Now, I've read about a recent security vulnerability found in GMAIL. Joxean Koret reported a vulnerability in the Gmail service. A remote...
I was reviewing a list of security vulnerabilities this morning and came across this one. I wrote earlier that Microsoft products get attacked frequently because of the wide spread use. Guess what will...