Microsoft's Patch Tuesday is looking somewhat light for next week.
University of British Columbia researchers were able to gain access to Facebook with a herd of automated "socialbots."
- By William Jackson
- 11/03/2011
A zero-day vulnerability discovered on Tuesday by Microsoft is being targeted by attackers as an open door to spread the Duqu malware.
Your picks for 2011's best Windows IT products in a wide variety of categories.
Close to 50 industrial companies were attacked in recent months by a readily available Trojan designed for information gathering.
The Linux Foundation, along with Red Hat and Canonical, has staked out positions on the secure boot procedure.
A congressional report claiming that the Chinese military may have hacked into two U.S. satellites was denied by Chinese officials and said the U.S. government had unspecified "ulterior motives"in blaming the country.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 10/31/2011
Lawyers for Microsoft have come to an out-of-court settlement with Czech Republic-based Dotfree Group and its owner over involvement in the Kelihos botnet ring.
According to a report presented to Congress, China was the origin of an attack that targeted RSA security and 760 government agencies and companies in March.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 10/26/2011
A newly discovered hole in Google Chrome's built-in sandbox protection could lead to a remote code execution, according to Acros Security.
Researchers last week described a cipher-block chaining (CBC) attack via the XML Encryption standard that could compromise secure online transactions
- By William Jackson
- 10/25/2011
A Trojan apparently being used to gather information for a future Stuxnet-style attack, was found in European industrial systems, according to Symantec.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 10/20/2011
According to a newly released security advisory report out of Georgia Tech, attacks against smartphone applications and browsers will continue to rise as the adoption of tablets and smartphones increase.
Google's contract to provide the city of Los Angeles with cloud-based applications faces completion issues after nearly two years.
The Homeland Security and Commerce departments are evaluating a list of possible voluntary industry standards that may be implemented to combat malicious networks of compromised computers controlled by online criminals.
- By William Jackson
- 10/14/2011
New security evasion techniques can be used to get through firewalls, researchers contend.
- By William Jackson
- 10/12/2011
Microsoft today released its October Security Bulletin, which includes eight bulletins that address 23 vulnerabilities -- with two bulletins labeled "critical" and six "important."
Zero-day software vulnerabilities may be alarming, but a new report from Microsoft sees them as not the biggest risk for organizations and PC users.
Microsoft released information on eight patches in its advanced notification of the October monthly security bulletin.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/06/2011
A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have come up with a new mapping procedure to quantify cyber threats.
- By William Jackson
- 10/04/2011