After experiencing its fair share of virus attacks as well as dealing with the ongoing problem of spam overwhelming the corporate network, luxury car retailer Brisbane BMW, made the decision to upgrade its e-mail management system.
Sandra Rossi |
07 Mar |
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Microsoft issued four critical updates Tuesday that quashed 12 bugs in Office, the company's business suite, including a flaw in Excel that has been exploited by attackers for more than two months.
Gregg Keizer |
12 Mar |
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A fresh discovery by security vendor Finjan provides yet another example of how easy it is becoming for almost anyone to find the tools needed to break into, infect or steal data from corporate Web sites.
Jaikumar Vijayan |
28 Feb |
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Quebec provincial police conducted raids on Wednesday, breaking up a hacking ring that police say is responsible for an estimated CDN$45 million (AUD$48 million) in damage to computer systems.
Robert McMillan |
22 Feb |
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Using peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing applications on the job raises the risk that confidential data residing on a user's PC might be inadvertently exposed to a cybercriminal, says the head of a security vendor.
Kathleen Lau |
15 Feb |
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More than 3600 vulnerabilities discovered last year remain un-patched, according to a study.
Darren Pauli |
12 Feb |
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Microsoft released 11 security updates fixing critical flaws in its products, including a publicly known ActiveX bug that affects users of the Visual FoxPro database.
Robert McMillan |
13 Feb |
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Many analysts consider Web application vulnerabilities to be among the biggest security threats facing companies these days. A lot of attention has been paid to understanding risks such as input-validation flaws, cross-site scripting errors and other Java Web application security threats.
Jaikumar Vijayan |
16 Nov |
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Enterprises are not prepared for the security threats posed by Web 2.0 technologies, because they use insufficient Web filtering and have failed to train users and make employees aware of potential risks, a vendor-sponsored survey claims.
Jon Brodkin |
09 Oct |
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IBM released free security software tools for business application developers on Thursday, a move the company said will help stem security breaches and hacker attacks.
Jeremy Kirk |
23 Jun |
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Amid signs of growing frustration in the retail community over the credit card industry's payment card industry (PCI) data security requirements, Visa on Tuesday quietly rolled out an additional set of Payment Application Security Mandates for all companies that handle credit and debit card transactions.
Jaikumar Vijayan |
26 Oct |
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Black Hat kicks off this week in Las Vegas with a big shift in focus from Internet viruses to application security.
Matt Hines |
01 Aug |
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Hewlett Packard's acquisition of Web applications security specialist SPI Dynamics on June 19 illustrates a growing demand among enterprise customers to have vulnerability-scanning tools integrated into their software development platforms.
Matt Hines |
20 Jun |
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As new Web applications such as wikis, blogs and podcasts that foster increased collaboration and communication proliferate, they are bringing new security challenges corporate network managers have to contend with.
Greg Enright |
02 Aug |
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IBM liked Watchfire s Web application security software so much it plans to buy the company for an undisclosed sum, it said Wednesday.
Peter Sayer |
07 Jun |
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Clear text messages used in transferring applications via Web services can potentially slip through existing security hardware allowing malformed code to run rampant within organizations.
Michael Crawford |
22 Feb |
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