More Security Articles

  • 21 June 2007

  • News: Hackers to attack digital home & Wi-Fi

    Online criminals looking for new areas to attack in the next few years will find green fields in the internet infrastructure and the digital home, according to researchers at McAfee's AVERT labs.

  • 20 June 2007

  • News: Online store trades in stolen credit cards

    RSA has uncovered an online store where fraudsters trade in stolen credit cards. RSA's analysts discovered the site, which purports to allow fraudsters to purchase almost any amount of stolen credit cards using an automated process.

  • News: McAfee releases free Total Protection 2.0 beta

    McAfee has released beta version of its next-generation Total Protection 2.0 consumer security software.

  • 19 June 2007

  • News: Google opens up URL blacklist

    Google has released an API that enables other applications to access its blacklist of URLs (uniform resource locators) that may have malicious programs.

  • News: Download the new PC Advisor podcast

    The latest PC Advisor podcast is now online. This week, the PC Advisor team looks at PC security. With all the hype and scaremongering originating from those that make the security software that promises to protect us, figuring out exactly what the most dangerous threats are can be a minefield.

  • 18 June 2007

  • News: Eden Project laptop exposes 500 employees

    Personal information of hundreds of workers at the famous Eden Project in Cornwall were on a laptop stolen from the car of an employee working for Moorepay, the company that looks after the Project's payroll. Data included names, addresses, bank details, and pay rates relating to 500 employees.

  • 16 June 2007

  • News: Mozilla patches Thunderbird 2 holes

    Mozilla has released a minor update of its email client, Thunderbird 2, version 2.0.0.4, which among other things fixes a couple of security holes.

  • News: Net crime group receives 1m complaints

    Online consumers in the US have had a million things to complain about. Literally.

  • 15 June 2007

  • News: Safari for Windows hits 1m downloads

    It took Apple just two days to reach 1 million downloads of its newest Safari web browser for Windows. A beta of the newest version was released during Steve Jobs' Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday.

  • News: Macs crippled by Safari 3.0 beta

    Some Mac users who have tried the three-day-old Safari 3.0 browser beta are hopping mad at Apple because several notable applications won't work after installing the application.

  • News: Child porn targeting forums using web script

    Child pornography is being injected into web forums by hackers using Cross Site Scripting (XSS), a technique typically deployed to distribute malware.

  • 14 June 2007

  • News: Windows Vista gets free security tools

    Check Point Software yesterday launched a Windows Vista version of its ZoneAlarm firewall. Check Point also announced a Vista version of its ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite. Customers with current subscriptions to earlier editions can update to the Vista version free of charge.

  • News: SonicWall buys Aventail for $25m

    IT security vendor SonicWall has entered into an agreement to acquire Aventail Corp, a privately held provider of SSL VPN remote access solutions for approximately $25 million in cash.

  • 13 June 2007

  • News: Warning over peer-to-peer ID theft

    It's not just the Recording Industry Association of America that people need to worry about when downloading music from peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

  • News: Microsoft reveals 9 'critical' bugs

    As Microsoft patched 15 vulnerabilities in its operating system, browser, and other software, security experts argued over which should be fixed first.

  • News: Safari for Windows: 18 bugs in one day

    Security researchers have jumped on Apple's beta version of the Safari browser, digging up as many as 18 bugs in the software, just one day after its release.

  • 12 June 2007

  • News: Flickr photos being blocked in China

    Flickr officials have no doubt that China is blocking their photo sharing site's images and the company is trying hard to figure out why this is happening and how it can be resolved.

  • News: Apple's Safari for Windows hacked already

    Apple is becoming a favourite target of security researchers these days. In April, there was the $10,000 CanSecWest hack a Mac contest, and on Monday there was the Safari web browser. Or the public beta of Safari for Windows, anyway.

  • News: Apple's Safari to run on Windows

    For his traditional last-minute surprise near the end of the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the company is releasing a beta of its Safari browser that runs on Microsoft’s rival Windows operating system.

  • News: AOL pest pleads guilty to spamming 1.2m people

    Adam Vitale pled guilty yesterday to sending unsolicited email to 1.2 million AOL subscribers, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Michael J. Garcia said.

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