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Microsoft to fix 13 holes in Windows, IIS, and Office

CNET News - Security - Thu, 09/09/2010 - 16:15
Four critical bulletins and five important bulletins coming on Patch Tuesday.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Categories: Security Alerts

Cheerleaders Gone Wild clickjacking tempts Facebook users

CNET News - Security - Thu, 09/09/2010 - 13:35
Clickjacking attack hid behind content warning and antispam mechanism before posting your prurient interests to all of your friends.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Categories: Security Alerts

Security firm: Zero-day Adobe exploit in the wild

CNET News - Security - Thu, 09/09/2010 - 11:10
Trend Micro says that its spotted a zero-day Reader and Acrobat exploit on the Web, identifying the malware by name.

Originally posted at The Digital Home

Categories: Security Alerts

Microsoft legal punch may change botnet battles forever

CNET News - Security - Thu, 09/09/2010 - 07:00
The software giant is on the verge of getting a court to grant it ownership over domains used in the Waledac spam botnet.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Categories: Security Alerts

Adobe warns of zero-day hole in Reader, Acrobat

CNET News - Security - Wed, 09/08/2010 - 13:34
Critical vulnerability could allow an attacker to take control of a computer, company says, and no patch is available yet.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Categories: Security Alerts

Antivirus isn't dead--it's growing up

CNET News - Security - Wed, 09/08/2010 - 07:00
Despite longtime diagnoses that antivirus software is doomed, security will become a service for mobile devices, experts predict.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Categories: Security Alerts

Mozilla fixes Firefox holes, curtails clickjacking

CNET News - Security - Wed, 09/08/2010 - 06:00
Along with the security fixes, Firefox 3.6.9 gets a new feature to help Web developers reduce clickjacking risks. Also: Chrome 6 gets bug fixes.

Originally posted at Deep Tech

Categories: Security Alerts

Norton's new Power Eraser goes free

CNET News - Security - Wed, 09/08/2010 - 03:09
The tool for removing aggressive malware is part of Symantec's 2011 refresh to its Norton consumer security suites.

Originally posted at The Download Blog

Categories: Security Alerts

Study: Two-thirds of Web surfers fall prey to online crime

CNET News - Security - Wed, 09/08/2010 - 03:01
Survey finds China, Brazil, India, and the U.S. at top of list of countries with the most cybercrime victims.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Categories: Security Alerts

Trend Micro bets on the cloud

CNET News - Security - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 23:00
Trend Micro revamps its consumer-protection suites by wagering heavily on cloud-based protection, creating security suites that the company claims are faster at detection and lighter on system resources.

Originally posted at The Download Blog

Categories: Security Alerts

Facebook closes hole that let spammers auto-post to walls, friends

CNET News - Security - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 15:37
Social-networking site plugs a second hole that allowed spammers to automatically post to people's pages.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Categories: Security Alerts

Apple's Ping dinged by spam

CNET News - Security - Fri, 09/03/2010 - 10:01
The new iTunes-based social network is getting hit by comment spam since Apple apparently left it vulnerable through a lack of spam- or URL- filtering, according to Sophos.

Originally posted at News - Apple

Categories: Security Alerts

U.N. exec: Cyberwar could be 'worse than tsunami'

CNET News - Security - Fri, 09/03/2010 - 09:28
Proposal for a global "cyberpeace" treaty has met "a lot of resistance" from industrialized nations, says head of U.N.'s International Telecommunication Union.
Categories: Security Alerts

Facebook adds new remote log-out security feature

CNET News - Security - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 16:30
Facebook users who log in from multiple devices will soon have a way to make sure they are only logged in on the computer they are currently using.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Categories: Security Alerts

Nigerian scam tops list of decade's online cons

CNET News - Security - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 13:16
Notices of winning the lottery and requests from Russian women who want to know you better are also up there on Panda Security's ranking of decade's top Net swindles.
Categories: Security Alerts

India wants local servers from RIM, Google, Skype

CNET News - Security - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 12:45
India plans to ask the three companies to set up local servers in the country so that security agencies can monitor customer communications.
Categories: Security Alerts

China requires cell phone subscriber IDs

CNET News - Security - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 19:40
New subscribers are asked for identification and existing subscribers are being encouraged to register their IDs with their numbers in what the Chinese government calls a crackdown on spam and fraud.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Categories: Security Alerts

Quantum crypto cracked, researchers say

CNET News - Security - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 13:48
Researchers claim to have cracked the quantum cryptography equipment used to cloak highly sensitive communications by banks and defense agencies.
Categories: Security Alerts

Sweden reopens rape probe of Wikileaks founder

CNET News - Security - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 12:35
After dropping a rape case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange last month, Sweden is reopening it for further investigation, according to reports.
Categories: Security Alerts

Cars: The next hacking frontier?

CNET News - Security - Tue, 08/31/2010 - 14:07
Efforts to make autos safer and more energy efficient with embedded computers and wireless technologies are also increasing security risks, experts say.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Categories: Security Alerts
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