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In its monthly scheduled security update, Microsoft released four sets of patches, totaling 33 updates, to counter several vulnerabilities in the company's widely used Windows operating system and other software products. Microsoft said three of the four patch sets are "critical vulnerabilities," wi...
Think that viruses and worms sent by e-mail are an IT security nightmare? Wait until you experience the next assault hackers are unleashing -- the browser-based attack. The second annual survey on IT security and the workforce conducted by CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association -- a ...
Public comments are due today at the Federal Communications Commission regarding a policy proposal instigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to bolster government surveillance of the Internet. Last month, the FBI, along with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Department of Just...
The first reported malicious code to target Apple's Mac OS X operating system, a potentially damaging Trojan Horse computer program, is serving as both a validation of the platform's security and a warning that more may be coming. Announced by Mac security vendor Intego, the Trojan horse, dubbed MP3...
RealNetworks is warning users of some of its RealPlayer and RealOne media players to remove a plug-in that could allow a remote attack and the running of arbitrary code on their machines. While Real's media players are among the most popular user applications around, with more than 200 million deplo...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is ratcheting up the computer industry establishment's pressure on hackers, meeting this week in Washington, D.C., with Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and IT industry leaders to decry Internet crime. Ballmer observed that the circle of active hackers today is large...
The old adage about there being "safety in numbers" no longer applies, at least not in the world of IT security. Microsoft platforms are not only the most widespread, but also the most attacked. About that much, most -- but not all -- commentators agree. The mi2g Intelligence Unit issued three bulle...
Software giants Microsoft and Computer Associates are heading up the National Cyber Security Partnership, a task force that is calling for security in software development from the start. The NCSP also is suggesting a more prominent role for government in securing software during the development pro...
Instant messaging has become the latest employee productivity tool. A customer-service representative can use it to answer a customer inquiry, whereas a salesperson can inform a busy vice president about a new account. In fact, research firm Gartner estimates 70 percent of corporate employees rely o...
It's bad enough when virus writers can download their worm code of choice and relatively simply unleash a new variant on the Internet, but Friday showed something even worse: Virtually zero effort is needed to entice people to open attachments. So far, the non-sophisticated, no-subject, no-text Bagl...
Let's do some arithmetic. Multiply the number of different hardware platforms in current use by the number of operating systems that have a reasonably large user base. Subtract the systems that simply won't work together. Multiply the result by the number of applications, servers and databases used ...
Keystroke loggers and spyware developers may soon be silenced, as Congress is debating a bill that would outlaw the intrusive software and declare it akin to trespassing on private property. "It's my computer. It's my private property," said Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Montana), during a public hearing in ...
A new trend in extorting money from sports and gambling Web sites isn't going away like security experts had predicted. Online gambling Web sites began receiving e-mail threats in October of last year. The messages contained demands for money to prevent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks t...
A computer worm that targets antivirus or firewall protection is nothing new, but the most recent case of a direct attack against computer defenses unfolded with alarming speed, less than two days after vulnerabilities in Internet Security Systems' BlackICE and RealSecure software were disclosed. As...
Rounding out the last half of the alphabet with Bagle.Q, Bagle.R, Bagle.S and Bagle.T variants, the latest worms in a long string of malware have become more sophisticated and sneaky, leaving security experts to ponder what might come next from the evolving family of malicious code. Reports from ant...
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