Surprise, surprise. Researchers have discovered vulnerabilities in Google's latest innovation, the Chrome browser.

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security-sponsored project has not only discovered that the quality of open-source software code has improved significantly over the past two years, it has debunked a widely held assumption that longer function strings within source code are associated with an increased number of code defects.

Three "critical" vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel found in many of the widely used distribution versions of the popular open source operating system.

Security vendor SecureWorks says a mass attack launched against Apache servers running Linux, which has now infected 10,000 websites, can be thwarted by disabling dynamic loading in the server configuration.

A vendor working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has uncovered vulnerabilities impacting 11 major open-source software projects, including the Perl and PHP programming and scripting languages used widely to develop web applications.

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.

Apple has issued patches to correct at least 40 vulnerabilities in its Mac operating system that could permit an attacker to install malicious software on a victim's machine

OpenOffice.org released a new version of its productivity suite this week, fixing a flaw that could allow arbitrary code execution attacks.

Anti-virus vendor Grisoft announced today that it has acquired web-browsing security provider Exploit Prevention Labs.

Apple on Wednesday released security updates for Mac OS X and Safari Beta 3, patching nearly 50 vulnerabilities.