Microsoft: five disclosed flaws likely exploited next month
Microsoft has released 13 security updates for its August Patch Tuesday update, five of which it considered likely to see reliable exploits developed for within the next 30 days.
Microsoft has released 13 security updates for its August Patch Tuesday update, five of which it considered likely to see reliable exploits developed for within the next 30 days.
EMC has squirrelled away US$81.3 million in reserve to cover the cost of customer remediation in response to the attack on RSA’s SecurID system it revealed in March.
Cisco has admitted to sending customers warranty CDs that, when opened in a browser, took users to a website know to have hosted malware.
Researchers at Microsoft are looking at a virtual machine “Rozzle” to detect browser malware that remains hidden until it finds the right plug-in or browser flaw to exploit.
Despite Microsoft’s efforts to make its User Access Control (UAC) security prompts less annoying, many users are still turning it off and in doing so helping thieves do their job, according to Microsoft.
Standards body the IEEE has called for proposals to build a catalogue of people using binary “packers”, the software tools often used by malware writers to hide executable files from antivirus products.
Every major corporation harbouring valuable information has been compromised, but only some know it, according to executives at McAfee and RSA.
Have you got great ideas for combatting cyber crime? The organisers of the 3rd annual eCrime Symposium in Canberra are seeking keynote speakers and subject experts for a panel discussion.
Anonymous on Sunday leaked the personal details of 7,000 police officers taken from the Missouri online training database, explaining via a You Tube video that it was retribution for recent raids.
Scotland Yard has arrested a 19 year-old man accused of being the person behind the handle of LulzSec spokesperson “Topiary”.
Prior to June hackers successfully breached “a series” of Australian merchants’ computers and gained customer card data, according to the Australian Federal Police.
Australian Federal Police have arrested a 25 year-old unemployed man alleged to have hacked into NBN wholesaler, Platform Networks.
Apple on Monday issued a new patch that fixes a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to spoof an X.509 certificate used to encrypt web sessions on 4.3.4 iOS devices.
Research in Motion’s (RIM) PlayBook tablet and a crypto product by its subsidiary have gained a key security credential that clears its path for use within US government and may signal RIM's wider plans to lure enterprise buyers.
Is the cost of Windows security driving people to Apple? Afterall, running a Mac without any security software is inadvisable but running Windows without any is insane.