Stories about: Internet Security Systems

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    Top 10 tech scares of the decade 11/01/2011 13:12:00

    The dawn of the new millennium prompted fears about the future, but so far reality has not quite matched the predictions of catastrophe. The first ten years passed uneventfully--well, aside from Y2K and a bunch of intelligent computer viruses. Here's a look back at the past decade, and ten of the most terrifying tech scares.
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    Foxit Reader update blocks new PDF attack tactic 05/05/2010 06:26:00

    Foxit Software, the developer of a rival PDF viewer to Adobe's vulnerability-plagued Reader, released an update today that blocks some attacks with a "safe mode" that's switched on by default.
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    Major malware campaign abuses unfixed PDF flaw 29/04/2010 05:30:00

    Several security companies today warned of a major malware campaign that tries to dupe users into opening rigged PDFs that exploit an unpatched design flaw in the format.
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    Life after IBM is all green for ISS co-founder Tom Noonan 29/04/2010 00:49:00

    It was 2006, and Tom Noonan had it all. Internet Security Systems (ISS), the company he co-founded and led as CEO, was pulling in $US400 million in annual revenue and on the verge of being acquired by IBM for a whopping $US1.3 billion.
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    Researchers see Gumblar attacks surge again 21/10/2009 08:26:00

    Security researchers are seeing a resurgence of Gumblar, the name for a piece of malicious code that is spread by compromising legitimate but insecure Web sites.
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    Why Security Matters Now 16/10/2009 05:06:00

    Social networking and cloud computing threats abound, our annual Global Information Security Survey finds, making information security important once again to business leaders.
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    Microsoft patches last major ATL bugs 15/10/2009 07:19:00

    Microsoft yesterday wrapped up a months-long job of patching a critical bug it accidently introduced in a crucial code "library," one of the researchers who uncovered the flaw said today.
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    Microsoft rushes patches to fix 'big deal' programming flaw 29/07/2009 08:33:00

    As promised, Microsoft today patched six vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE) and Visual Studio with the first "out-of-cycle" update since it plugged a hole last October that the Conficker worm later used to run rampant.
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    Juniper nixes ATM security talk 01/07/2009 07:08:00

    Router maker Juniper Networks has barred one of the company's security researchers from discussing security flaws in Automated Teller Machines after an ATM maker threatened legal action.
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    Adobe patches 13 critical PDF bugs in first quarterly update 10/06/2009 12:36:00

    Adobe issued its first regularly-scheduled security updates on Tuesday, fixing at least 13 critical flaws reported by outside researchers and secretly patching an unspecified number of bugs found by its own team.
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    Conficker group says worm 4.6 million strong 15/04/2009 05:40:00

    Security experts say that the Conficker worm has infected an awful lot of computers, making it the largest "botnet" of hacked computers on the planet. The thing they can't seem to agree on, however, is exactly how many people have been hit.
 
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