Recent Articles
January 09, 2008
A New Jersey man this week was sentenced to more than two years in prison for planting a "logic bomb" on the network of his former employer in a failed attempt to destroy sensitive health care data.
January 08, 2008
Discount retail website Geeks.com has notified affected customers that a hacker may have accessed their credit card numbers and other personal information in a December incident. The website features the "hacker safe" notification from McAfee ScanAlert.
January 08, 2008
Six companies have settled claims with the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an anti-piracy public policy group, for nearly $700,000 in damages resulting from the use of unlicensed software.
January 07, 2008
Researchers have discovered the first trojan for Apple's iPhone, but say the risk to users is "minimal" and should be viewed as a warning of more serious malware aimed at the popular mobile device.
January 04, 2008
The information in an authentication dialog box from Mozilla's Firefox browser can be spoofed, allowing an attacker to conduct phishing schemes, according to Israeli researcher Aviv Raff.
January 04, 2008
What had appeared to be an internal MySpace administration page, found on an online forum by a prominent security researcher, has been claimed by a domain-name registration and web-hosting vendor.
January 03, 2008
An attacker can carry out cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks on a vulnerable system through newly disclosed vulnerabilities in Shockwave Flash (SWF) files.
January 02, 2008
MySpace is deleting fake user profiles, spoofed to appear to have been created by Tom Anderson, the website's president and co-founder, that offer free access to ringtones.
December 28, 2007
Cyberattackers are exploiting the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to spread malware, according to researchers at numerous anti-virus vendors.
December 27, 2007
Apple last week revised its most recent security update, fixing a bug in the series of patches that causes its Safari web browser to crash.