New attacks leverage unpatched IE flaw, Microsoft warns
An Internet Explorer flaw made public by a Google security researcher two months ago is now being used in online attacks.
Robert McMillan | 12 Mar | Read more
An Internet Explorer flaw made public by a Google security researcher two months ago is now being used in online attacks.
Robert McMillan | 12 Mar | Read more
When it comes to browser security, Internet Explorer usually gets ridiculed and beaten up the most. And though Microsoft's IE8 was quickly unraveled at Pwn2Own, Apple's Safari 5 was hugely embarrassed by getting hacked in five seconds flat.
Brennon Slattery | 11 Mar | Read more
Google is adding a feature to its search engine that lets users block out all links from specific domains in their query results.
Juan Carlos Perez | 11 Mar | Read more
Apple today patched a record 62 vulnerabilities in Safari 5, updating the Mac and Windows browser to version 5.0.4.
Gregg Keizer | 10 Mar | Read more
Google's Android Market mobile software shop was hit last week with its first major malware attack.
For only the second time, Google last weekend remotely deleted Android apps from users' phones.
Gregg Keizer | 08 Mar | Read more
The Android world is still reeling from the DroidDream invasion of the Android Market. Google has flipped the kill switch to wipe out apps associated with DroidDream, but the work of investigating how this Android Trojan infiltrated Google, and how to prevent similar attacks in the future is just beginning.
Tony Bradley | 08 Mar | Read more
The Google Android Market for apps is supposed to be an apps showplace, but the fact that Google this week yanked down about 50 Android apps it found out were malicious came as something of a jolt to many in the security industry.
Ellen Messmer | 03 Mar | Read more
Google has pulled more than 50 malware-infected apps from its Android Market, but hasn't yet triggered automatic uninstalls of those programs from users' phones, security experts said today.
Gregg Keizer | 03 Mar | Read more
More than 50 applications containing malware have been discovered in Google's application market for its Android mobile OS, a sign that hackers are hard at work trying to compromise mobile devices.
Jeremy Kirk | 03 Mar | Read more
Gmail is hard at work restoring service to about 40,000 Gmail users after a software bug deleted their e-mail messages, folders, labels and filters. So, while things are looking good for those users affected by the bug, this episode proves, once again, that while Web-based services may be robust, you still have to take responsibility for your own data.
Google says it is "very sorry" for a Gmail software bug that reset some 150,000 accounts and left their owners contemplating the prospect of having lost years worth of data. The outage affected only a fraction of one per cent of Gmail users, but its severity was particularly noteworthy.
Paul McNamara | 02 Mar | Read more
Google on Monday patched 19 vulnerabilities in Chrome, paying nine researchers $14,000 in bug bounties for reporting the flaws.
Gregg Keizer | 01 Mar | Read more
It is no secret that mobile platforms are ripe targets for malware. The explosion of smartphones and tablets, combined with the lack of security awareness or tools for mobile platforms makes them particularly attractive targets. Apparently, Android has caught the attention of mobile malware developers because the number of threats is on the rise.
Tony Bradley | 01 Mar | Read more
The cloud has failed roughly 150,000 Gmail users, whose e-mails have been deleted and accounts disabled by a mysterious glitch.
Jared Newman | 01 Mar | Read more