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Adobe: Time to step up security plate?
Insight From a security perspective, Adobe looks an awful lot like Microsoft did back when Windows was getting blasted by viruses and vulnerabilities and before Redmond beefed up its defenses.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, PC security, Data security, Business applications, Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Security, Adobe Acrobat Reader, patch management
Sloppy risk assessment raises Web fear factor
Insight perspective Web security experts must separate actual risk from theoretical risk, says a security researcher.
Tags: Risk Management, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Security, IT Manager, Attack, Tool, Risk, computer, InfoWorld
Waledac worm targeting July 4 spam offensive
News Researcher warns people to be cautious about clicking on links related to U.S. Independence Day videos in e-mail messages over the holiday.
Tags: Network security, Video, PC security, Eset, Worm, Spamming, Spam, leasing, Valentine's Day, e-Mail Message
Expert says Adobe Flash policy is risky
News Adobe Flash Player allows arbitrary content to access applications without permission, says researcher at Foreground Security.
Tags: Personal applications, Multimedia, Security Management, Web sites, Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Security, Web sites, Web Browser, researcher
IBM: Computing rivaling human brain may be ready by 2019
News Leading scientist, working with colleagues from several top universities, has pioneered computational analysis that rivals that of a cat's cortex. Human brain could be just a decade away.
Tags: Supercomputing, Multiprocessor servers, Brain, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Computing, Computer, DARPA, financial system, financial
Twitter users warned about new phishing attack
News Sophos says the new attack features direct messages with link to fake Twitter log-in page. Entering a username and password prompts a fake overcapacity "fail whale."
Tags: Security Management, Spam and phishing, Web 2.0, Phishing, Twitter Inc., Web Page, Web 2.0, Sophos Plc., Graham Cluley, Phishing Web Site
Businesses targeted by small botnets
News Most networks of compromised computers in organizations are small and surreptitious, according to security company Damballa.
Tags: Hacking, PC security, Data security, Authentication and encryption, Spam and phishing, Machine, Antivirus, network, corporate security, Vienna University
Microsoft fixing Bing bug that aided spammers
News Company works to fix a bug, discovered earlier this week by Webroot researchers, that let spammers piggyback onto Bing redirects and get through spam filters.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Search, MySpace, RSS, Security, Web Page, Microsoft Corp., Spam, Spammer
Phished or not, leaked passwords show lazy habits
News While researchers debate how passwords were stolen, analysis of the exposed passwords reveals some interesting trends.
Tags: E-mail servers, Spam and phishing, Data security, E-mail clients, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Phishing, ScanSafe, Malware, Password
HP darknet 'not for dissidents'
News Technology developed by Hewlett-Packard to enable secure communications networks to be set up via a Web-browser should not be used by dissidents.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Hewlett-Packard Co., Security, Iran, Web Browser, Tool, U.S. Government, File-sharing, researcher
Apple fixes months-old Java bug
News The Mac OS X patch fixes a serious Java vulnerability that was made public six months ago and that has already been remedied by most other operating-system vendors.
Tags: Java, Viruses and worms, Antivirus software, Web Browser, Researcher, Pure Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Viruses and worms, Antivirus software, Java
Researchers prove kernel is secure
News Australian research organization says it has absolute mathematical proof of the security of an operating system core.
Tags: Components, Kernel, computer, aircraft, University of Cambridge, high-performance, researcher, buffer-overflow vulnerability, team, Components
New virus infects programs built with Delphi
News Win32.Induc targets systems running Delphi development software and spreads by infecting any program compiled on the machine.
Tags: Data security, Business security, Security Management, Spam and phishing, Viruses and worms, Malware, Sophos Plc., Database, SonicWall, antivirus
Facebook disables 6 rogue phishing apps, but 5 more appear
News Rogue applications keep cropping up that are sending Facebook users to a phishing site, stealing passwords, and then spamming users' friends.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Phishing, App, Spamming, Trend Micro Inc., Phishing Web Site, photograph, Facebook, researcher
Researchers can attack mobile phones via spoofed SMS messages
News Researchers at the Black Hat security conference showed how an attacker could spoof a SMS message that appears to be sent from the carrier or some other trusted source.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Spam, PayPal, Message, Cell Phone, Carrier, Attack, Server, phone, Attacker
