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Article | 22/03/2011 Adobe patches Flash zero-day bug in Reader

Adobe Monday patched a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader, making good on a promise last week to plug the hole.

Article | 22/03/2011 Man charged with hiring pump-and-dump spam botnet

A Texas man was charged Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice with helping to inflate the prices of penny stock companies by promoting them with a ...

Article | 22/03/2011 Man who stole Goldman Sachs code gets 8-year sentence

A former Goldman Sachs computer programmer has received a stiff prison sentence for stealing source code used in the company's high-frequency trading ...

Article | 22/03/2011 Appeals court reinstates lawsuit against US surveillance

A U.S. appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit, brought by civil liberties and other groups, challenging the legality of a controversial government law...

Article | 22/03/2011 Yahoo's offers cookie opt-out button ahead of new EU law

Yahoo has anticipated a new European Union directive by introducing a feature designed to ensure Web users' privacy through the use of an opt-out butt...

Article | 21/03/2011 Google: Gmail blocking designed by Chinese government

China is blocking Gmail in the country with methods that make it look as if the access problems lie with Google, said the search engine giant on Monda...

Article | 19/03/2011 Four steps to take if your business depends on RSA SecurID tokens

With the theft of sensitive data about RSA's SecurID technology, large businesses should reassess the risks to the assets the two-factor authenticatio...

Article | 19/03/2011 Microsoft urges Office users to block Flash Player attacks

Microsoft yesterday urged users of older Office suites to install and run a complicated tool to protect themselves against ongoing attacks exploiting ...

Article | 19/03/2011 Can your browser really stop sites from tracking you?

Something like this has happened to all of us lately: You shop for a watch for a friend's birthday and for a week afterwards every site you visit feat...

Article | 19/03/2011 Caution urged in wake of RSA security breach

The relatively scant information released by EMC's RSA security group on Thursday in connection with the theft of SecurID authentication technology co...

Article | 19/03/2011 After RSA breach, are SecurID tokens in jeopardy?

The intrusion by hackers of security giant RSA, a unit of EMC, has left customers and analysts wondering if it is still safe to use millions of the on...

Article | 18/03/2011 RSA warns SecurID customers after company is hacked

EMC's RSA Security division says the security of the company's two-factor SecurID tokens could be at risk following a sophisticated cyber-attack on th...

Article | 18/03/2011 Security will rescue cloud computing

Whenever the topic of security is mentioned in the context of cloud computing, it is usually discussed as the "big barrier" to adoption. The perceived...

Article | 18/03/2011 Swedish Parliament delays approval of data retention law

Sweden will not put into effect the E.U. Data Retention Directive for at least a year, after a vote in the Parliament on Wednesday postponed the imple...

Article | 18/03/2011 Notorious spamming botnet, Rustock, takes a fall

A large network of hacked computers called Rustock, which was responsible for a great volume of spam, has shut down, perhaps as a result of another co...

Article | 17/03/2011 Google first to patch Flash bug with Chrome update

Google on Tuesday updated Chrome, patching a flaw in the browser's copy of Flash Player.

Article | 16/03/2011 Intel targeting security in the cloud with McAfee

Intel will use assets acquired from McAfee to provide cloud security services to protect the growing number of mobile devices that face malware and cy...

Article | 15/03/2011 Anonymous releases Bank of America related documents

The group of online activists known as "Anonymous" has released a batch of e-mail concerning Bank of America that was given to the group by a whistleb...

Article | 9/03/2011 Microsoft patches critical Windows drive-by bug

Microsoft today shipped three security updates that patched four vulnerabilities in Windows and Office.

Article | 9/03/2011 How Google and Android users can make a secure mobile market

Android has a lot going for it, but as the last week has shown its approach to selling and distributing applications is going to need some improvement...