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Article | 9/11/2009 First iPhone worm spreads Rick Astley wallpaper
The first worm written for Apple's iPhone has been unleashed and is infecting phones in Australia.
Article | 4/11/2009 Microsoft 'neutered' UAC in Windows 7, says researcher
Microsoft's decision to reduce the number of annoying security messages that Windows 7 delivers when users install software makes the new operating sy...
Article | 5/11/2009 Java, BlackBerry desktop get security bug fixes
Sun Microsystems and Research In Motion have issued critical bug fixes for security issues with their products.
Article | 5/11/2009 Botnet authors crash WordPress sites with buggy code
Webmasters who find an annoying error message on their sites may have caught a big break, thanks to a slip-up by the authors of the Gumblar botnet.
Article | 4/11/2009 Fix old flaws to stop new attacks
In further confirmation that Internet crooks tend to grab for the low-hanging fruit, a new Microsoft report reveals that the most common browser-based...
Article | 4/11/2009 A single sign-in for all your websites? Google hopes so
It's one of the basic tenets of online security: Never use the same password/username combo for every website that requires one. The logic is sound, o...
Article | 4/11/2009 Microsoft re-patches last month's critical IE update
Microsoft yesterday re-patched Internet Explorer, the third time it's been forced to repair one of the updates from its largest-ever bug fix, which wa...
Article | 4/11/2009 Microsoft correctly predicts reliable exploits just 27% of the time
Microsoft's monthly predictions about whether hackers will create reliable exploit code for its bugs were right only about a quarter of the time in th...
Article | 4/11/2009 Software shields online banking on infected PCs
A U.K. security company is giving to banks, for free, security software that it says can block malicious software from manipulating online banking tra...
Article | 4/11/2009 M86 Security buys Finjan
Looking to strengthen its Web security product offerings, M86 Security has acquired most of the assets of Finjan, a seller of Web gateway security app...
Article | 3/11/2009 ArcSight adds unstructured log analysis with Logger 4
Event management vendor ArcSight will soon start selling a new version of its product, designed to mine unstructured computer logfiles for signs of ha...
Article | 31/10/2009 Q&A: Don't judge Microsoft security by the number of Patch Tuesday bulletins
Microsoft Corp. pours more money into software security than any other major vendor both because it has to and because it can. Yet for all the investm...
Article | 2/11/2009 Microsoft patch tally: 6 years, 745 vulnerabilities
With its massive security update last month, Microsoft Corp. marked the end of the sixth year since it moved to a monthly patch schedule. An informal ...
Article | 3/11/2009 Better security for not quite everyone
It's scary to think how much sensitive or even valuable information can be gleaned from an untended PC, even one whose user just walked away for a few...
Article | 29/10/2009 Amazon downplays report highlighting vulnerabilities in its cloud service
Amazon said today that it has taken steps to mitigate a security issue in its cloud computing infrastructure that was identified recently by researche...

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