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| Eweek News |
Who Is Running The Most Secure Browser?
Many users are undoubtedly not updating their browsers as quickly as they should, but you can't conclude any specifics about that from the recent study of Google logs....
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DOJ Sued Over Cell Phone Tracking Practices
Civil liberties groups claim the Justice Department is bypassing warrants to obtain real-time tracking information on U.S. citizens....
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Microsoft Internet Explorer Security Strikes Back
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 security builds on the Phishing Filter of IE 7 and thwarts cross-site scripting....
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The Password Paradox
The Password Paradox states that most security professionals try to increase the security of their enterprise applications with more and more passwords. The problem is that with too many passwords users can't remember them all, and they end up calling up the help desk, which drains productivity, or writing them down in an insecure manner. After a point, says Bill Carey, vice president of marketing at Siber Systems, systems will end up being less secure. Find out more in this IT Link podcast....
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WatchGuard Bets on XTM Appliance Security
Security vendor WatchGuard Technologies is expanding its appliances to add flexibility and better threat protection....
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| CNet |
VeriSign names interim CEO
Company's founder takes the place of the CEO and president, who resigned abruptly earlier this week....
Video: Latest in Viacom-Google lawsuit raises questions
News.com's Dan Farber tells what's at stake for users' privacy as a result of a federal judge's ruling that Google must turn data over to Viacom....
Researcher faults Apple iPhone on security updates
He says iPhone, still at version 1.1.4, is at least four months behind desktop OS in patching many known Mac OS X security vulnerabilities....
Google RatProxy looks for cross-site flaws
Free tool helps Web developers analyze their site for a variety of cross-site vulnerabilities....
Daily Debrief: Celebrating America's independence, questioning our own online
On Thursday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss the latest development in the Google-Viacom lawsuit....
Hundreds of Lithuanian Web sites defaced
Loosely affiliated supporters mount an online protest over new laws in Lithuania banning the display of Soviet symbols....
Mozilla and Opera fix security flaws
Opera updates its most recent release, while Mozilla continues to support an older version of Firefox with updates....
Four security bulletins expected on Patch Tuesday
The four, which will be released next week, are considered important, not critical, says Microsoft....
Stolen: Google employees' personal data
Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services....
Sony PlayStation site victim of SQL-injection attack
Automated attack claims another high-profile target, offering sale of a fake antivirus scanner....
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| ZDNet |
Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign
A Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign is circulating online using email as propagation vector, attempting to trick users into visiting a Storm Worm infected host, where a multitude of what looks like over five different exploits attempt to automatically infect the visitors next to the malware binary fireworks.exe. Historically, Storm......
Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?
The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG. Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer. AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer. This pre-crawling is flooding websites with......
On deck from MS: Four 'important' patches but nothing for IE
Next Tuesday, Microsoft plans to ship four security updates for multiple flaws affecting Windows, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange Server but the absence of fixes for publicly known Internet Explorer issues is causing raised eyebrows among security professionals. According to the company's advance notice for July's......
Apple caught neglecting iPhone security
If you're waiting on iPhone 2 to standardize your business on the awesome new device (yeah, I'll be on line to buy one), you might want to pay attention to the conspicuous absence of iPhone security patches over the last four months. As WaPo's Brian Krebs reports,......
Opera patches serious code exection flaw
Opera Software has joined the list of browser vendors shipping fixes for serious remote code execution vulnerabilities. The company's new Opera 9.5.1 patches at least four security issues, the most serious being a flaw reported by Microsoft's Billy Rios that could be used to execute arbitrary code.......
Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!
If you read my blog postings semi-often, you know that I'm very, very critical of problems with airport security. Nicole Wong of the Boston Globe reported that Boston's Logan International Airport will become the next airport to implement full-body scanners (thanks for the link from the LiquidMatrix guys!) that can see......
Can Mozilla's security metrics project end the patch-counting nonsense?
In partnership with indie security consultant Rich Mogull left Mozilla has launched a valuable Security Metrics Project that could help to -- we can only hope -- put an end to the silly notion that patch-counting helps to determine a product's security posture. The idea is......
News to know: Searching Silverlight; IE 8; Dell; Google vs. YouTube
Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Silverlight content searchable, too Ryan Stewart: Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom with Michael Cot LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses ......
Matasano ships Web-based firewall manager
The firewall is one of the few security tools that has been proven to be very effective at improving a company's security posture. However, staying on top of policies -- and responding to change requests -- while trying to manage multiple firewalls from different vendors can be a never-ending nightmare......
300 Lithuanian sites hacked by Russian hackers
A recently accepted legislation in Lithuania banning communist symbols across Lithuania, has prompted Pro-Russian hackers to start defacing Lithuanian sites, an indication of the upcoming attack was detected last week with active discussions around Russian forums greatly reminding us of the Russia vs Estonia cyberattack sparkled due to the removal......
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