Firefox 3 'Download Day' cripples Mozilla site
Mozilla's big plan on Tuesday to set a world record for downloads with the Firefox 3 browser hit a snag when its Web site would not work properly.
Elizabeth Montalbano | 18 Jun | Read more
Mozilla's big plan on Tuesday to set a world record for downloads with the Firefox 3 browser hit a snag when its Web site would not work properly.
Elizabeth Montalbano | 18 Jun | Read more
A hacker has posted attack code that exploits critical flaws in the Safari and Internet Explorer Web browsers.
Robert McMillan | 11 Jun | Read more
Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) ships with an out-of-date version of Adobe's Flash Player that's vulnerable to recently-spotted attacks, according to Microsoft's support documentation.
Gregg Keizer | 04 Jun | Read more
A Zip Bomb is a small Zip file that exploits capabilities of compression algorithms and settings to expand into a file or set of files that consume system resources to the point of system unusability. Didier Stevens, continuing his recent work in finding interesting sections of the PDF data scheme, has described techniques for the PDF equivalent of the Zip bomb, or a PDF Bomb.
Carl Jongsma | 26 May | Read more
While nearly half of U.S. retailers have been hit with some kind of information security attack, only a small percentage of them have actually reported breaches to their customers, research company Gartner reports.
Robert McMillan | 25 May | Read more
Global energy giant BP is exploring numerous techniques to prevent sensitive information making its way out of the organization - including how best to deal with employees' use of third-party services.
Rodney Gedda | 19 May | Read more
With the business of Internet banking changing and online threats growing, the industry needs to adapt and integrate security technology across more channels and be more collaborative to reduce fraud, according to one electronic payments specialist.
Rodney Gedda | 21 May | Read more
Microsoft Tuesday patched six vulnerabilities, most marked "critical," in Windows, Word, Publisher and its anti-virus software.
Gregg Keizer | 14 May | Read more
The vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers with a laptop security product announced Tuesday.
Jon Brodkin | 14 May | Read more
More than half a million Web sites have been compromised in a new round of attacks that hacked domains in order to infect unsuspecting users' PCs with a variety of malware, a security researcher said today.
Gregg Keizer | 13 May | Read more
It used to be easy for US Bank to determine which users and systems could be trusted, and which should be viewed with suspicion. Then along came Web 2.0.
Jon Brodkin | 01 May | Read more
Botnet fighters have another tool in their arsenal, thanks to Microsoft.
Robert McMillan | 30 Apr | Read more
Microsoft late Friday denied that vulnerabilities in its Web and SQL server software had been exploited to hack hundreds of thousands of Internet pages.
Gregg Keizer | 29 Apr | Read more
Large numbers of legitimate Web sites, including government sites in the UK and some operated by the United Nations, have been hacked and are serving up malware, a security researcher said Wednesday as massive JavaScript attacks last detected in March resume.
Gregg Keizer | 24 Apr | Read more
Bruce Schneier is one of the foremost experts on cryptography and is a well-known security author and commentator. He is the founder of the managed security services company Counterpane, which was acquired in October 2006 by BT. Schneier sat down with IDG News Service at the Infosec security show in London to talk about the effectiveness of security products and the psychology of security.
Jeremy Kirk | 23 Apr | Read more
The PCI Security Standards Council, which establishes requirements for the payment-card industry, Tuesday formally launched its payment-application security program.
Ellen Messmer | 17 Apr | Read more
The security researcher who walked away with US$10,000 last week by hacking a MacBook Air in less than two minutes said he chose to attack Apple's operating system for one simple reason.
Gregg Keizer | 31 Mar | Read more
Bruce Schneier shared his ideas about the psychology of security, and the need for thinking sensibly about security, in his hometown last week when he gave a lecture at the Weisman Art Museum in the US.
Ann Bednarz | 31 Mar | Read more
After enduring withering criticism late last year for the lack of adequate privacy controls in its Beacon advertising system, Facebook garnered positive reviews Wednesday for new controls that let users more strictly monitor who can access the content they create on the site.
Heather Havenstein | 20 Mar | Read more
The security conference that last year made headlines with a hack challenge whose winner walked away with a US$10,000 prize is reprising the contest next week -- this time with more money at stake, the contest's organizer said.
Gregg Keizer | 20 Mar | Read more