Adobe to fix Flash Player on Patch Tuesdays
Adobe's schedule for issuing security updates for Flash Player will now coincide Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule.
Gregg Keizer | 19 Nov | Read more
Adobe's schedule for issuing security updates for Flash Player will now coincide Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule.
Gregg Keizer | 19 Nov | Read more
Personally identifiable information of "at least" 10,000 NASA employees and contractors remains at risk of compromise following last month's theft of an agency laptop, a spokesman said Thursday.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 15 Nov | Read more
Ransomware is a growth industry that puts at least $5 million a year into criminals' coffers, according to Symantec.
Gregg Keizer | 09 Nov | Read more
Adobe on Tuesday announced that it will pair future security updates for its popular Flash Player with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule.
Gregg Keizer | 07 Nov | Read more
Groups of companies in the same industry could mitigate the effects of cyberattacks by pooling infrastructure resources and working together on security issues, a senior official in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has suggested.
Martyn Williams | 05 Nov | Read more
In the biggest data compromise of the year, Social Security Numbers belonging to about 3.6 million residents in South Carolina have been exposed in an intrusion into a computer at the state's Department of Revenue.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 26 Oct | Read more
Barnes & Noble has removed PIN pad devices from all of its nearly 700 stores nationwide as a precaution after detecting evidence of tampering with the devices at 63 of its stores in eight states.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 24 Oct | Read more
The hackers behind the Duqu botnet have shut down their snooping operation, a security researcher said today.
Gregg Keizer | 01 Dec | Read more
Security experts today warned consumers of a rapidly mutating spam campaign using bogus messages from United Parcel Service (UPS) claiming that a package could not be delivered.
Gregg Keizer | 29 Nov | Read more
The hacker group behind Duqu may have been working on its attack code for more than four years, new analysis of the Trojan revealed Friday.
Gregg Keizer | 12 Nov | Read more
After days of spotty online access, Bank of America (BofA) today said its Web and mobile services have not been hit by hacking or denial-of-service attacks. But the nation's largest bank would not disclose what's causing its website problems.
Lucas Mearian | 06 Oct | Read more
Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory this week showed how an electronic voting machine model that's expected to be widely used to tally votes in the 2012 elections can be easily hacked using inexpensive, widely-available electronic components.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 29 Sep | Read more
Microsoft on Thursday wrapped up its civil case against the still-unnamed controllers of the Rustock botnet and handed off the information gleaned during its investigation to the FBI.
Gregg Keizer | 23 Sep | Read more
Vacationland Vendors, a company that supplies vending machines and games to entertainment venues, has disclosed a data breach affecting about 40,000 people who visited waterpark resorts in Wisconsin and Tennessee between December 2008 and May 2011.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 13 Sep | Read more
Apple today released an update to Mac OS X that blocks Safari users from reaching sites secured with certificates stolen from a Dutch company last summer.
Gregg Keizer | 10 Sep | Read more