The Stuxnet worm is a "groundbreaking" piece of malware so devious in its use of unpatched vulnerabilities, so sophisticated in its multi-pronged approach, that the security researchers who tore it apart believe it may be the work of state-backed professionals.
Gregg Keizer | 17 Sep | Read more
Google patched 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome this week, including one pegged critical on the Mac.
Gregg Keizer | 17 Sep | Read more
Mozilla has stopped providing security updates to Firefox users as it investigates a bug that caused computers to crash last week.
Gregg Keizer | 15 Sep | Read more
Microsoft may have a tough time fixing the Windows shortcut vulnerability, a security researcher said today.
Gregg Keizer | 21 Jul | Read more
Microsoft on Friday warned that attackers are exploiting a critical unpatched Windows vulnerability using infected USB flash drives.
Gregg Keizer | 18 Jul | Read more
Ten months after it debuted rudimentary malware scanning in Snow Leopard, Apple this week quietly added a signature for a third piece of malware, security researchers reported today.
Gregg Keizer | 19 Jun | Read more
Attacks targeting Facebook users will continue, and could easily become even more dangerous, a security researcher said today.
Gregg Keizer | 28 May | Read more
Hackers adore Adobe Reader, and have pushed it into first place as the software most often exploited in targeted attacks, a Finnish security company said today.
Gregg Keizer | 11 Mar | Read more
Microsoft on Sunday confirmed it's investigating an unpatched bug in VBScript that hackers could exploit to plant malware on Windows XP machines running Internet Explorer (IE).
Gregg Keizer | 01 Mar | Read more
Chinese computer users are five times more likely than U.S. users to be targeted by hackers exploiting the just-patched bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a Web metrics company said today.
Gregg Keizer | 23 Jan | Read more
A massive bot-based attack has been hitting Facebook users, with nearly three-quarters of a million users receiving fake password reset messages, according to security researchers.
Gregg Keizer | 29 Oct | Read more
Microsoft last week patched nine vulnerabilities, five marked "critical," in Windows 7, a move that will require users upgrading to the new operating system starting Thursday to download a security update to keep their PCs secure.
Gregg Keizer | 19 Oct | Read more
Google's Gmail and Yahoo's Mail were also targeted by a large-scale phishing attack, perhaps the same one that harvested at least 10,000 passwords from Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail, according to a report by the BBC.
Gregg Keizer | 07 Oct | Read more
Microsoft took the unusual step today and skipped patching one of the vulnerabilities addressed in its monthly security update, saying that crafting a fix was "infeasible."
Gregg Keizer | 09 Sep | Read more
Microsoft late Tuesday confirmed that a bug in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and the release candidates of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, could be used to hijack PCs.
Gregg Keizer | 10 Sep | Read more