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Article | 8/11/2012 Microsoft slates first Windows 8, RT patches since launch
Microsoft will issue six security updates next week, including three for Windows 8 and its tablet spin-off Windows RT.
Article | 29/09/2011 Argonne researchers 'hack' Diebold e-voting system
Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory this week showed how an electronic voting machine model that's expected to be widely used to tally vote...
Article | 28/09/2011 Microsoft promises patch to block BEAST attacks
Microsoft today said it will issue a Windows security update to plug a long-known hole in the protocol that secures websites.
Article | 24/09/2011 New Mac malware poses as PDF doc
Security firms today warned Mac users of a new Trojan horse that masquerades as a PDF document.
Article | 22/09/2011 Adobe patches Flash bug hackers are already exploiting
Adobe on Wednesday patched six vulnerabilities in Flash Player, including one it admitted is already being exploited by attackers.
Article | 22/09/2011 DigiNotar dies from certificate hack caper
The Dutch company that was hacked earlier this summer by certificate thieves has gone bust and shut down, its U.S.-based owner said Tuesday.
Article | 21/09/2011 China denies role in hack of Japanese defense contractor
A Chinese government official today denied any involvement in the attack that compromised scores of servers belonging to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, ...
Article | 13/09/2011 Certificate hacker probably paid by Iran, say victimized firms
The CEO of a certificate-issuing company that was hacked in March is even more certain now that a wave of attacks against similar firms is backed by t...
Article | 7/09/2011 Microsoft flips 'kill switch' on all DigiNotar certificates
Microsoft today updated Windows to permanently block all digital certificates issued by a Dutch company that was hacked months ago.
Article | 30/08/2011 New Windows worm spreads by attacking weak passwords
A new Windows worm is working its way through company networks by taking advantage of weak passwords, security researchers said over the weekend.
Article | 25/08/2011 Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
Developers of the Apache open-source project today warned users of the popular Web server software that a denial-of-service (DoS) tool is circulating ...
Article | 24/08/2011 Researchers find first Android malware targeting Gingerbread
Researchers have spotted the first malware that exploits a critical vulnerability in Android 2.3, aka Gingerbread, finding samples tucked into legitim...
Article | 16/08/2011 Adobe admits Google fuzzing report led to 80 'code changes' in Flash Player
Adobe on Friday acknowledged that as many as 80 bugs in Flash Player were reported by a Google security engineer as it defended its decision not to sp...
Article | 11/08/2011 Microsoft patches final Pwn2Own IE bug
Microsoft on Tuesday patched the last vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) used by a researcher in March to win $15,000 at the annual Pwn2Own hacki...
Article | 4/08/2011 Microsoft kicks off $250,000 security contest
Microsoft today launched a $250,000 contest for researchers who develop defensive security technologies that deal with entire classes of exploits.