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SanDisk has warned that IT managers are unaware of the extent to which unsecured flash drives are being brought into their organizations, backing this with a new study of corporate end-users and IT executives...
It took three days, but Windows Vista was hacked as well. I blogged earlier that the Mac OS fell the fastest, and now Vista has fallen, through of all things a hole in Adobe flash. Maybe I should take...
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...
ComputerWorld asked the question...what was the answer? Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology looked at how many times over the past six years the two vendors were able to have a patch...
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...
A list of all security audit events for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista in Microsoft Excel format. Download digg_url='http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgormly/archive/2008/03/21/security-audit-events...
Apple today released APPLE-SA-2008-03-18 Security Update 2008-002, the second security update for the year. Most significant updates include to Apache, ClamAV, Emacs, OpenSSH, PHP , and X11. Security Update...
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...
A group of hackers calling itself "Anonymous" has hit the Church of Scientology's Web site with an online attack. The attack was launched January 19 by Anonymous, which is seeking media attention...
Microsoft just published a report that compares vulnerabilities and security updates over the last year for Windows Vista, XP, Linux and Mac OS X. In the report, Vista came out on top. Jeff Jones, Director...
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...
A backup tape containing credit-card information from hundreds of U.S. retailers is missing, forcing the company responsible for the data to warn customers that they may become the targets of data fraud...
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...
Microsoft has posted the TechNet Security Series Seminar from December 13th. The second TechNet Security Series Seminar happened on Thursday 13 December 2007. Here are the presentations that were made...
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...
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...
Attackers are trying to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime software that could let them run code on a victim's computer, Symantec warned in a DeepSight Threat Management System...
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...
This volume of the SIR focuses on the first half of the 2007 calendar year (from January through June) and builds upon the data published in the previously released volumes of the SIR. Using data derived...
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...
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...
computer forensics expert has uncovered an additional 106,821 pieces of personal data on a copy of a stolen backup tape removed from the car of an intern responsible for carrying data used by the Ohio...
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...
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...
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