YouTube Fixes Privacy Issue
What had appeared to pose a serious privacy concern with YouTube and observed by several people for about a month has been corrected. Directory:
> Insider Reports > Insider Date: 2007-05-30
Child's Disappearance Fuels Scammers
The vanishing of Madeleine McCann from a Portuguese hotel spurred an effort to fund her search, followed by the attempts to exploit her abduction for financial gain. Directory:
> Insider Reports > Insider Date: 2007-05-29
Spam Is Up, Few People Care
The amount of spam peppering inboxes has increased, but fewer people are bothered by the endless parade of phishing and stock scams. Directory:
> Insider Reports > Insider Date: 2007-05-24
Sophos Finds A BadBunny
A low-threat worm affecting the OpenOffice productivity suite arrived at the offices of security firm Sophos, complete with a pornographic bunny suit picture attached. Directory:
> Insider Reports > Insider Date: 2007-05-23
Google Debuts Security Blog
Online security efforts at the world's dominant search engine will be the focus of posts from Google's researchers on a newly created Online Security blog. Directory:
> Insider Reports > Insider Date: 2007-05-22
Symantec Crashes Chinese Computers
The company's Norton antivirus product declared a couple of important Windows components to be malware after a flawed signature update. Directory:
> Insider Reports > Insider Date: 2007-05-21
Months Of Bugs Good For Users
The past few months of daily bug releases for technologies like browsers, kernels, and the ongoing ActiveX are having an impact on the updates of those products. Directory:
> Insider Reports > Insider Date: 2007-05-18
Changes Coming To Microsoft Bulletins
Administrators will see something different in the advanced notifications Microsoft releases ahead of their security updates, as well as update to the actual security bulletins. Directory:
> Insider Reports > Insider Date: 2007-05-17
Secure Computing Checks Domain Health
Administrators can find out if their domains or associated netblocks are being identified as security risks based on their messaging or web behaviors. Directory:
> Insider Reports > Insider Date: 2007-05-15
BlueHat Busts Microsoft Products
Taking a cue from the BlackHat conferences, Microsoft runs an internal-only security event where speakers illustrate security issues for their fellow workers. Directory:
> Insider Reports > Insider Date: 2007-05-11
Google Seeks Better Web Page Security
The threat of malicious websites hosting exploits has reached a point where Google's engineers have decided to respond with a security analysis of the pages they index. Directory:
> Insider Reports > Insider Date: 2007-05-10
Microsoft Patches Code Execution Flaws
Critical vulnerabilities posing remote code execution threats to several Microsoft products received fixes with the company's monthly patch updates. Directory:
> Insider Reports > Insider Date: 2007-05-09
Malware Evolving In Nastiness
Social engineering and deeper hooks for rootkits are the focal areas for new malware spotted by a couple of security companies. Directory:
> Insider Reports > Insider Date: 2007-05-07
New Spam Attacks Company Reputations
Symantec's latest monthly spam report noted some new types of junk flowing into inboxes, including one type that impugns the reputation of the company it supposedly promotes. Directory:
> Insider Reports > Insider Date: 2007-05-03
Naming Names: Big Brands With Bots
The Support Intelligence security monitoring firm has turned its blog into a playground of brand name companies that have been victimized by spammers planting bots on their networks. Directory:
> Insider Reports > Insider Date: 2007-05-01
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