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Social Media Security Becoming a Bigger Issue Security concerns from social media are becoming a bigger issue as this form of interaction becomes more commonplace.
Phishers Pretending to be MySpace Users With the enormous popularity of MySpace, which continues to grow rapidly, it is no surprise that it's users are being targeted by phishing scams.
Is Educating Users About Security a Lost Cause? A Swedish doctoral student thinks that educating users about computer security is a lost cause.
Oracle Updates Update Presentation Oracle is making what some would call "much needed" changes to the way it presents its security bulletins.
Symantec and the Security 2.0 Strategy Symantec announced it's strategy for "Security 2.0", and is getting a lot of attention for doing so.
AJAX and Security Jay Lyman over at LinuxInsider has an interesting article on security concerns with the AJAX development technique.
More Mobile Malware Details from Kaspersky Kaspersky Lab has released the second half of a report on the evolution of mobile malware.
One Secure Laptop Per Child You may have heard of the "One Laptop Per Child" project, which aims to give kids their own laptops paid for by the government.
Symantec ID Protection Launching Monday Symantec's new identity-protection solution, Norton Confidential, will begin shipping Monday.
Vista Pirates to Experience Less Functionality It appears that Microsoft is stepping up anti-piracy efforts with Windows Vista.
Let Your Phone Do the Screaming A company called Remote XT has launched a product with the same name in Britain.
Social Networking and Safety October is National Cyber Awareness month, and who better than CA and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to give us some helpful info to stay safe online...
Top Malware Threats and Hoaxes for September The time has approached for Sophos to release it's monthly lists of the most prevalent malware threats and hoaxes, these being for the month of September.
McAfee and Symantec Unhappy with Microsoft It appears that McAfee and Symantec are seeing eye to eye when it comes to Microsoft and its Windows Vista security products.
Apple Patches 15 OS X Vulnerabilities with Friday Update Apple released a Mac OS X update today to correct 15 vulnerabilities in the operating system.
Trend Micro Goes After Botnets Trend Micro has released a new content security solution designed to identify botnet activity.
BellSouth, ISS and Georgia Tech to Explore VoIP Security Members from the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, BellSouth, and Internet Security Systems have teamed up to research VoIP security.
Symantec and Microsoft Disagree on API Availability Is Microsoft withholding important information about the Vista operating system to gain an unfair advantage in the security market...
Most U.S. Residents Not Concerned with ID Theft According to a survey from security company AuthenTec, most U.S. residents are not taking steps to safeguard themselves from identity theft.
Unpatched Hole Could Mean Trouble for IE Users Sophos warns of an unpatched hole in Microsoft software that allows hackers to exploit the way Vector Markup Language (VML) is handled.
Electronic Voting Machines Threaten Results Electronic voting machines are vulnerable to malicious attacks according to a research paper from Princeton.
Zotob Boys Get to Go Away for Awhile Sophos reports that Farid Essebar and Achraf Bahloul, who took part in creating the Zotob worm have been sentenced to jail.
Mozilla Gets Window, Formerly of Microsoft In an effort to strengthen security, Mozilla has hired former Micosoft security executive Window Snyder.
McCarty Admits to Hacking USC You may recall a story about a man who hacked into the University of Southern California's student application system to steal personal data related to the university's applicants.
Australian Scammers Phishing for Models Sophos reports on a phishing campaign making the rounds out of Australia that claims to be from a modeling agency.
Buying and Selling Personal Info with Smartphones and PDAs eBay-related security stories seem to be a common theme lately. This one in particular concerns the sale of smartphones and PDAs on eBay.
Malware That Alters Search Results There is a new malicious program on the loose, which incorporates a rootkit. It is called Zcodec and it can change search result as well as install other things.
Phishing Attack Targets iFriends Users Sophos reports on a new phishing attack being executed against users of an adult webcam site.
Phishers Luring People with Fake Charity Sites Charity scams are nothing new. I seem to recall a story a long time ago about a fake Salvation Army Santa stealing money from generous people.
Cisco: PIX Flaw Remains Unconfirmed At the recent Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, a VoIP developer named Hendrik Scholz said that there was a flaw in Cisco's PIX 500 Series Security Appliances.
Users of Ruby on Rails Urged to Update A security flaw has been discovered in the Ruby on Rails framework, and the team is urging users to get what they are calling a "mandatory" update.
Symantec Launches Council to Inspire Innovation Symantec has launched its "Executive Customer Advisory Council", which consists of a group of CIOs and other IT execs from different global customers.
Sophos: Nigerian Scamster Taken Down An alleged "ringleader" in a huge two million dollar Nigerian email scam was arrested in Lagos, Nigeria according to Police in Amsterdam, Sophos reports.
Arkin: NAC Full of Holes Ofir Arkin of Insightix blew the horn on NAC (Network access control) technology at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas today.
Black Hat and Defcon Begin in Vegas The two biggest hacker conferences in the nation are going on back to back in Las Vegas starting with the beginning of Black Hat USA 2006 today.
More Change at Symantec: CTO Goes to CA Symantec CTO Ajei Gopal has left the company after two years to become CA's senior vice president and general manager of its Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) business unit.
PowerShell Virus Targets Kazaa Users A new form of malware has come to light. It is written in Windows PowerShell script, and its name is Cibyz.
Sophos Reveals Top 10 Threat Lists for July Sophos has warned that even though the amount of infected email has gone down, users should not get a false sense of security.
Mobile Threats: Believe or Disbelieve the Hype? There is a bit of a scuffle going on in the security industry as to just how big of a threat mobile viruses are, particularly smart phone viruses.
Application Security Problems Stem from Customization According to Gartner Research, the biggest root of application security problems is the customization of the applications themselves.
Morality or Money - Vulnerabilities For Sale There are people out their discovering security vulnerabilities in popular programs and selling their knowledge of the vulnerabilities to the person offering the most.
Yet Another Lame Attempt at Stealing Your Money How many people would receive an email claiming that the sender had the cure for AIDS and believe it...
Metasploit Creator Unleashes Google-Based Malware Search Tool A little over a week ago, it was reported that security company WebSense was using Google to search for and identify malware.
Microsoft's Private Folders Taken Down Well, it appears that Microsoft's Private Folders software didn't quite work out as planned. The company has now made it unavailable.
IM and Image Spam On the Rise Attacks on IM systems are on the rise as email attacks gradually decrease according to Integrated Message Management company Postini.
More Deceptive Spam Spreads Trojan Horse There is a new spam campaign going around, which pretends to be a breaking news story about the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin according to Sophos.
Where Was the Sense of Urgency After the VA Theft? You've probably read something about the laptop stolen from the department of Veterans Affairs back in May.
Teenagers Putting PCs in Jeopardy Teenagers cannot be trusted to keep a PC secure. At least that is what evidence from a European survey conducted by McAfee suggests.
Microsoft Offers Privacy Microsoft has released a software tool called Private Folder 1.0, which is made to protect a user's private files through a password.
WebProWorld Discussion on Windows Genuine Advantage As you've probably read, there is quite a bit of controversy surrounding Microsoft's Windows Genuine advantage.
MySpace Adds Security After Lawsuit After being sued by a 14-year-old girl, MySpace has decided to add some extra security features to protect minors.
Media Companies Lack Security Tom Braithwaite with Financial Times reports on on research by Deloitte showing an increasing security problem with media companies.
Kaspersky Lab on Bluetooth Hackers As Bluetooth becomes more popular, naturally, hackers are taking advantage of it. Kaspersky Lab has researched this topic in London.
Coca Cola Email is a Classic Scam SophosLabs has exposed an email scam pretending to from Coca Cola saying that the recipient has one a lottery.
Deceptive Jacko, Oil and Bin Laden Spam Michael Jackson has not committed suicide regardless of what some malicious spam messages will tell you.
Malware in Email Slowing Down? PC Advisor reports that Sophos claims that the amount of emails containing malware has significantly decreased since last year.
McAfee Enhances Gateway Appliances McAfee has made enhancements to its Secure Messaging Gateway and McAfee Secure Internet Gateway appliances.
Yahoo Steps on Worm In yesterday's news, Symantec warned of a a new JavaScript worm on the loose targeting a flaw in Yahoo Mail.
Microsoft Brands Security Products Forefront Microsoft has created a new brand for its security products called "Forefront", the company announced at the TechEd 2006 conference this week.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday to Correct 12 Flaws 12 security flaws will be patched by Microsoft tomorrow on Patch Tuesday including 9 Windows flaws, 2 Office flaws, and 1 Exchange Server flaw.
Symantec Tells About Yahoo Mail JavaScript Worm According to Symantec, a new JavaScript worm is on the loose targeting a flaw in Yahoo Mail.
Is Your Inbox Haunted by Ghosts? A number of strange emails have been circulating containing both HTML and random strings of numbers.
Windows Genuine Spyware? As you probably know, Microsoft has been trying to cut down on piracy of its software with its Windows Genuine Advantage technology.
Symantec to Provide Products for Linux on IBM's POWER platform Symantec has entered a deal with IBM, in which Symantec will provide storage management and backup products for Linux on IBM's POWER platform.
Cross Browser, OS Flaw Discovered A new security flaw has been discovered in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Mozilla on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Public Wants Government To Do More for Online Security It's no secret that concern over online security is as high as ever, and many Americans want the government to do more about it.
Four Falcons to Take Flight This Summer McAfee's Falcon platform, which is to be released this summer, will come in four different varieties for different levels of protection.
Qwest to Offer Windows Live OneCare In its first partnership involving Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft has struck a deal with Qwest communications.
Indiana Fights ID Theft As more and more stories about identity theft flood the headlines, the state of Indiana has taken it upon itself to make a new law.
ZoneAlarm Updated For Increased Protection Check Point's Zone Labs has released an update to its ZoneAlarm security suite - ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 6.5.
Microsoft Focuses on Security with Exchange Server 2007 Microsoft is apparently focusing on security with the upcoming 2007 version of Microsoft Exchange Server.
Virus Top Twenty From Kaspersky Kaspersky Lab announced the publication of its Virus Top Twenty for May, which actually isn't all that different from its Top Twenty from April.
Symantec Names Genesis Norton 360 Symantec revealed today that its upcoming consumer PC security service, which until now has been codenamed "Genesis", will be called Norton 360.
McAfee Gets Rid of General Counsel McAfee announced that its Board of Directors has fired the company's General Counsel, Kent Roberts.
McAfee Talks Falcon McAfee's next-generation consumer security service platform, code-named "Falcon" will be released this summer.
Wireless Encryption In Major Financial Cities Research from RSA Security shows that the number of wireless networks in some of the world's biggest financial areas is increasing tremendously.
MySpace Hackers Busted Two teenagers from New York allegedly hacked into MySpace and stole the personal information of its users.
Tales of Stolen Laptops As the topic of laptop theft came up from the recent Department of Veterans Affairs incident, Absolute Software shared a press release with me that I had not seen.
Nortel and Symantec Join Forces on Application Switch Nortel and Symantec have teamed up to protect network infrastructures with the Nortel Application Switch with Symantec Intelligent Network Protection.
Time for Phisher to Do Time A 21-year-old man from Iowa named Jayson Harris was sentenced to 21 months in prison for perpetrating a phishing scam against subscribers of MSN.
In Case a Standard Worm Wasn't Annoying Enough... There has been a Yahoo! Messenger-related threat in the news the past few days involving a worm that installs a browser onto the victim's machine.
Sony BMG Reaches Settlement Over Rootkit Suits You probably recall a slew of stories about Sony BMG being sued over CDs containing Rootkit software.
Students Must Watch Their Blogging Habits Students at one school district in Illinois can get in trouble with their school if they are caught using a blog site depicting "illegal or inappropriate" behavior.
Vista, Office, and Windows Server "Longhorn" Betas Released According to Microsoft, Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Server "Longhorn" cut down IT Costs by reducing security risks.
PandaLabs Discovers PPC Botnet Fraud A pay-per-click botnet fraud has been discovered by PandaLabs that automatically registers clicks and steals a lot of money.
Microsoft Not Too Worried About Symantec Case? Microsoft is apparently not extremely worried about its Vista operating system being delayed as a result of the lawsuit from Symantec.
Yahoo! Messenger Worm Installs Browser A threat related to Yahoo! Messenger was identified and reported by FaceTime Security Labs Friday.
Skype Fixes File-Transfer Security Flaw Older versions of Skype running on Windows machines were subject to a security flaw that would potentially allow malicious files to be transferred through the VoIP service.
Encryption for VoIP Comes to Windows Zfone, which was previously only available for Mac and Linux systems has now become available for Windows as well.
Data of 26.5 Million Veterans Stolen The names, Social Security numbers and birth dates of up to 26.5 million veterans have been stolen according to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Symantec Takes Microsoft to Court In 1996, Microsoft made a deal with Veritas, which allowed Microsoft to use Veritas volume management technology in Windows.
Inormation Security To Grow in China China is said to be hit harder by viruses, worms, denial-of-service attacks, and identity thefts than the United States, and security companies are taking notice.
South Korean Zombie Master Apprehended Sophos reports that a man in Korea was arrested for sending about 18 million spam messages per day.
Upcoming McAfee Investor Presentations McAfee announced several investor presentations from its Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer as well as its Chief Executive Officer.
Symantec's Upcoming Investor Presentations Symantec CFO James Beer and Enrique Salem, the company's senior vice president of Consumer Products and Solutions will be presenting at investor conferences this month.
Virus Leaks Japanese Power Plant Security Info Security information about a Japanese thermoelectric power plant run by the Chubu Electric Power Company has been leaked.
SIIA Goes After Pirates of Symantec & McAfee Software The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) filed 3 separate lawsuits related to pirated software being sold through eBay.
McAfee's Hill to Discuss Attacks, Viruses and Worms McAfee "security evangelist" John R. Hill will be presenting at the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce Conference and Expo.
Symantec CEO Prefers Mac In response to a question from an audience member at the Future in Review conference, Symantec CEO John Thompson said that more people should buy Macs.
Comodo Releases VSA Service Comodo has unveiled its Vulnerability Scanning and Assessment Service (VSA) for auditing network security.
Fortify Joins FindBugs Project Fortify Software has joined the FindBugs open source project in an effort to expand functionality.
Apple Fixes Flaws, but Some Remain Apple fixed many flaws in its OS X operating system when it released last week's patch.
Kaspersky Adds Features to its Security Secure CMS developer Kaspersky Lab has debuted two new products for the consumer and SOHO markets - Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 and Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0.
Press Sings Praise for McAfee AntiSpyware Solution Information Security Magazine named McAfee AntiSpyware Enterprise the top product out of seven of its kind.
More Breaches Discovered at Ohio University As reported recently, Ohio University's database has been compromised for over a year giving hackers access to the personal data of as many as two to three hundred thousand people, mainly alumni.
Unsafe Searching McAfee released a report today regarding online safety related to the use of the major search engines.
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