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Article | 24/02/2011 Mozilla to skip CSRF bug patch in next Firefox update
Mozilla today said that it will ship security updates to Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6 next Tuesday, ending a debate about whether to wait for a patch t...
Article | 24/02/2011 Church Website knocked offline: Was Anonymous involved?
The main Web site of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) in Topeka was unavailable this morning, just days the Anonymous hacking collectiv...
Article | 23/02/2011 New bank Trojan employs fresh tricks to steal account data
Cybercriminals in Eastern Europe have begun using a dangerous new malware program to steal from online bank accounts in the U.S.
Article | 16/02/2011 Attack mitigation tools fall short, security vendors say
SAN FRANCISCO -- Acknowledging that security technologies to prevent cyberattacks are insufficient, several vendors at the RSA Conference here urged c...
Article | 15/02/2011 Stuxnet scored quick hit on first target, says researcher
Stuxnet infected its first target just 12 hours after hackers finished the worm, an indication that the malware scored an almost instant bulls-eye, a ...
Article | 9/02/2011 Bug bounty program reveals 22 unpatched flaws, 5 in Office
As it promised last year, on Monday the world's biggest bug bounty program released information about nearly two dozen unpatched vulnerabilities, incl...
Article | 9/02/2011 Microsoft delivers 'big month' of patches, quashes 22 bugs
Microsoft today issued 12 security updates that patched 22 bugs in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office and its Internet server software.
Article | 5/02/2011 Google fixes nine bugs in Chrome, including sandbox-escape flaw
Google on Thursday patched nine bugs in Chrome and upgraded the most stable edition of the browser to version 9.
Article | 26/01/2011 Intel developing security 'game-changer'
Intel's chief technology officer says the chip maker is developing a technology that will be a security game changer.
Article | 14/01/2011 Google pays record bounty for Chrome bug
Google patched 16 vulnerabilities in Chrome on Thursday, paying one researcher a record $3,133 for reporting a single bug. The flaws fixed in Chrome 8...
Article | 18/01/2011 Israel tested Stuxnet worm, says report
The Stuxnet worm that disrupted Iran's ability to enrich uranium into bomb-grade nuclear fuel was jointly created by Israel and the U.S., the New York...
Article | 12/01/2011 Microsoft turns to creative tactic to block IE attacks
Microsoft today turned to a new defensive measure to help users ward off ongoing attacks exploiting a known bug in Internet Explorer (IE).
Article | 6/01/2011 Researchers confirm Googler's Internet Explorer bug
French security researchers today confirmed the presence of a bug in Internet Explorer (IE) that's at the center of a spat between Microsoft and a Goo...
Article | 5/01/2011 Kneber botnet strikes again, targets gov't agencies
A botnet fingered for stealing a treasure trove of information last year has struck again, harvesting sensitive documents from dozens of government ag...
Article | 16/12/2010 Microsoft to boost Office 2003, 2007 security
Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would backport an Office 2010 security feature to the older and more widely used Office 2003 and Office 2007 early n...