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Article | 28/10/2010 Mozilla: No 'kill switch' for Firesheep add-on
Mozilla today said it wouldn't -- or couldn't -- pull a "kill switch" to disable the Firesheep add-on that lets anyone steal log-on and account access...
Article | 23/10/2010 Apple dumps Flash from Mac OS X
Apple will stop bundling Adobe's Flash with Mac OS X, the company confirmed Friday.
Article | 21/10/2010 Users neglect Java patches, leave attack door wide open
Oracle should piggyback on Microsoft's update service to boost users' chances of running a patched version of Java, a security expert said today.
Article | 19/10/2010 Microsoft's anti-Zeus tool cleans quarter-million PCs
Microsoft said its free malware cleaning tool had scrubbed the money-stealing Zeus bot from nearly 275,000 Windows computers in under a week.
Article | 17/10/2010 Zeus botnet gang targets Charles Schwab accounts
Criminals are using a Zeus botnet to pillage Charles Schwab investment accounts, a security researcher said Friday.
Article | 7/10/2010 Adobe hits Reader users with 23-patch 'whammy'
Adobe patched 23 security vulnerabilities in its Reader PDF viewer on Tuesday, most of them critical, including one that has been exploited by hackers...
Article | 2/10/2010 Why did Stuxnet worm spread?
Stuxnet's inability to stay stealthy may be fall-out from a failure to hit its intended targets last year, security researchers said today.
Article | 30/09/2010 IE users most at risk from DLL hijacking attacks
Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) are more vulnerable to rogue DLL attacks than people who use rival browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox or G...
Article | 23/09/2010 Microsoft confirms it missed Stuxnet print spooler 'zero-day'
Contrary to reports, a bug that Microsoft patched last week had been publicly discussed a year and a half ago, security researchers said this week.
Article | 15/09/2010 Microsoft patches new Windows bug exploited by Stuxnet
Microsoft today delivered nine security updates to patch 11 bugs in Office, the IIS Web server and Windows, including one that was overlooked but expl...
Article | 15/09/2010 Mozilla halts Firefox security updates
Mozilla has stopped providing security updates to Firefox users as it investigates a bug that caused computers to crash last week.
Article | 14/09/2010 Adobe sounds alarm on Flash zero-day attacks
Less than a week after warning users that hackers were exploiting an unpatched bug in its Reader PDF viewer, Adobe said on Monday that Flash, its othe...
Article | 14/09/2010 Security firm warns of commercial, on-demand DDoS botnet
The security firm Damballa is warning of a large and fast growing botnet created specifically to deliver distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks ...
Article | 8/09/2010 Spammers exploit second Facebook bug in a week
Facebook today said it has fixed the bug that allowed a spamming worm to automatically post messages to users' walls earlier this week.
Article | 9/09/2010 Apple matches Mozilla, patches DLL hijacking bug in Safari
Apple yesterday patched three vulnerabilities in Safari, including one in the Windows version that quashed a bug Microsoft said individual developers ...

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