Amazon and Microsoft have been pushing cloud-computing services as a low-cost way to outsource raw computing power, but the products may introduce new security problems that have yet to be fully explored, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Robert McMillan | 04 Sep | Read more
July was a tough month for Adobe Systems' security team. So tough, in fact, that the company's second-ever quarterly patch release will arrive a month late, Adobe's security chief said Thursday.
Robert McMillan | 04 Sep | Read more
Oracle database administrators who are worried they might have to skip Oracle's user conference next month to fiddle with security updates can relax. Oracle is cutting them a break and releasing its next set of patches a week later than planned.
Robert McMillan | 04 Sep | Read more
A hacker has posted code that could be used to take over a system running Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services) server.
Robert McMillan | 02 Sep | Read more
Symantec has posted a software fix after hundreds of users reported problems with a buggy update of the company's flagship Norton AntiVirus software.
Robert McMillan | 26 Aug | Read more
Why spend millions of dollars campaigning when you can hack an election for less than 100 grand?
Robert McMillan | 13 Aug | Read more
Citing tough economic times, security vendor Websense plans to trim 5 percent of its workforce.
Robert McMillan | 06 Aug | Read more
Four South Korean journalists were booted from the Defcon hacking conference this week after conference organizers decided their story didn't quite add up.
Robert McMillan | 04 Aug | Read more
Hoping to deal with a growing problem, Twitter has quietly introduced a feature to prevent users from posting links to malicious Web sites. But security experts say that it can be easily circumvented.
Robert McMillan | 04 Aug | Read more
Security researchers have found some serious flaws in software that uses the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption protocol used to secure communications on the Internet.
Robert McMillan | 30 Jul | Read more
Microsoft has been forced to issue emergency patches for its Windows operating system after researchers discovered a way to bypass a critical security mechanism in the Internet Explorer browser.
Robert McMillan | 28 Jul | Read more
They sometimes call national security the third rail of politics. Touch it and, politically, you're dead.
Robert McMillan | 18 Jul | Read more
Microsoft has sued a Hong Kong seller of mobile ringtones, saying the company used phishing techniques to flood Microsoft Live Messenger users with spam messages.
Robert McMillan | 17 Jul | Read more
A blind Boston-area teenager was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Friday for hacking into the telephone network and harassing the Verizon investigator who was building a case against him.
Robert McMillan | 30 Jun | Read more
A team of journalists investigating the global electronic waste business has unearthed a security problem too. In a Ghana market, they bought a computer hard drive containing sensitive documents belonging to U.S. government contractor Northrop Grumman.
Robert McMillan | 25 Jun | Read more