In an effort to draw attention to an long-standing security problem in Apple's Mac OS X operating system, a security researcher has posted attack code that exploits the flaw.
Robert McMillan | 21 May | Read more
Blasted three months ago for being slow to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its popular PDF viewer, Adobe today promised it will root out bugs in older code, speed up the patching process and release regular security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
Gregg Keizer | 21 May | Read more
The Conficker worm is still infecting systems at a brisk rate and continues to snag computers in Fortune 1000 companies, according to security researchers.
Robert McMillan | 21 May | Read more
The Wi-Fi Alliance has expanded its WPA2 certification program to include a tool for secure handoffs between Wi-Fi and 3G networks, as well as an authentication system that uses multiple secured tunnels.
Stephen Lawson | 20 May | Read more
Facebook has adopted the OpenID user-identity framework to simplify how people register for and log into the social networking site.
Juan Carlos Perez | 19 May | Read more
Security vendors are warning users of Microsoft's Internet Information Services 6 Web-server software that a new online attack could put their data at risk.
Robert McMillan | 19 May | Read more
As expected, Microsoft today patched a six week-old critical vulnerability in PowerPoint, the presentation maker that's part of the popular Office suite, using a single security update.
Gregg Keizer | 13 May | Read more
A third, or 34 per cent, of disused hard drives still contain confidential data according to a new study, which found missile defence system data and media records on ebay purchases.
Kathryn Edwards | 13 May | Read more
The U.S. needs to engage in a national dialog about its government's use of cyberattacks against other nations, and the government lacks a comprehensive policy about how and when it will engage in cyberwarfare, a new study says.
Grant Gross | 01 May | Read more
Spammers have seized on the growing interest in news of a possible swine flu epidemic to hawk fake pharmaceuticals, security experts warned Monday.
Gregg Keizer | 28 Apr | Read more
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 in March, and whether to install it is likely your biggest update decision right now.
Erik Larkin | 28 Apr | Read more
The need for greater e-mail integrity has never been more important as e-mail has become the primary mode of communication for most connected businesses with, according to research firm IDC, an estimated 850 million commercial mailboxes worldwide.
MIS Asia staff | 27 Apr | Read more
Some bot-infected PCs can crank out as many as 25,000 spam messages per hour, new research released Wednesday claimed.
Gregg Keizer | 23 Apr | Read more
Mozilla Corp. on Tuesday patched 12 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3, just days before it hopes to roll out the newest beta of its next open-source browser, Firefox 3.5.
Gregg Keizer | 22 Apr | Read more
Just days after his apprehension in Mexico following two years on the run from law enforcement authorities, an alleged hacker was indicted this week by a federal grand jury for hacking into the computer networks of VoIP service providers.
Sharon Gaudin | 19 Feb | Read more
Attackers are already exploiting a bug in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) that Microsoft patched just last week, security researchers warned Tuesday.
Gregg Keizer | 19 Feb | Read more
Spammers have cracked Microsoft's latest defense against abuse of its Live Hotmail e-mail service using a sophisticated network of hacked computers that receive encrypted instructions from a central server, a security company has reported.
Gregg Keizer | 19 Feb | Read more
Google is taking issue with a report that says click fraud hit a record high in the fourth quarter.
Juan Carlos Perez | 30 Jan | Read more
New Microsoft technology designed to protect Internet Explorer users from a powerful new Web-based attack will not fix the problem, security experts said Tuesday.
Robert McMillan | 28 Jan | Read more
Hackers have seeded LinkedIn, the business networking service, with bogus celebrity profiles.
Gregg Keizer | 08 Jan | Read more