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Blackworm D-Day Turns Out to Be a Dud

While the world held its breath, there were few noticeable effects from the dreaded Blackworm, which began deleting files on infected Windows computers Friday,...

Security Conflict: Auditing the On-Demand Realm

Marc Maiffret is a worried man. The chief hacking officer and co-founder of eEye Digital Security looks at the rising popularity of hosted Web applications...

The Problem with Consensus Computing

Breakthrough technologies invariably require some IT executive somewhere to have the guts to deploy when no one else is seriously doing so.Thats a bold...

Security Appliances Aid Compliance

Imperva on Jan. 30 rolled out three new SecureSphere Gateway appliances that help meet regulatory requirements imposed by PCI Data Security Standards, the Health...

Mozilla Plugs Firefox 1.5 Security Gaps

The Mozilla Foundation has shipped the first patch for its flagship Firefox 1.5 browser to plug a series of security vulnerabilities and memory leaks. The...

Free Removal Tools Released as Blackworm Approaches

With the clock ticking on a Feb. 3 D-Day for the activation of the destructive Blackworm worm payload, anti-virus vendors are rushing to release...

AMD Hack Points to Widespread Web Forum Flaws, Attacks

Malicious hackers are increasingly targeting security vulnerabilities in open-source software that runs bulletin boards and online forums, according to Internet monitoring firm Netcraft. The unpatched...

A Slow Death for ActiveX?

The Microsoft of recent decades has been much more willing than in the past to cast its own bright ideas aside and do what...

Symantec Names Former Oracle Leader as CIO

Symantec has revealed the latest change in its executive ranks, naming former Oracle executive David Thompson as its new CIO. On a conference call with...

Researcher: WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000

Virus hunters combing through the wreckage of the zero-day WMF (Windows Metafile) attacks have found evidence that exploit code was being peddled by Russian...