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Opera Battles Spoofing in Latest Beta Release

Responding to the rise of a spoofing flaw in Web browsers, Opera Software ASA has released a second beta release of its next browser...

Lawmakers Target Consumer-Data Privacy

In the wake of recent high-profile thefts of sensitive personal information from what were considered protected databases, legislators are preparing to turn up the...

Mozilla Battens the Hatches Against IE 7.0

If evidence were needed that the new browser war will be won or lost on the security message, along comes the Mozilla Foundation with...

ICANN Still Steal Your Domain

Ive been concerned with the problem of domain theft for some time now, and the more I look into it the more I get...

Personal Info Is Ripe for the Taking

Youre not Paris Hilton. But you could easily have her problems. Youre not ChoicePoint. But your company could easily have its problems.As technology becomes...

Firefox Gets Major Security Makeover

The Mozilla Foundation late Thursday rolled out a major security update to fix several known cross-site scripting and domain-spoofing vulnerabilities in the upstart Firefox...

Security Flaws Haunt Open-Source Projects

Multiple vulnerabilities in two popular open-source projects—phpMyAdmin and phpBB—could put users at risk of cross-site scripting and information disclosure attacks, security researchers warned Thursday. According...

ARJ File Bug Threatens Trend Micro Scanners

A bug in ARJ file parsing in Trend Micro virus-scanning products could lead to a heap-based buffer overflow and potentially to the execution of...

Buffer Overflows Patched in Cyrus Mail Server

The Carnegie Mellon University has released a new version of its widely deployed Cyrus IMAP Server to fix a series of potentially dangerous code...

Microsoft, Symantec Jostle for Security Supremacy

The wave of consolidation that has swept through the security industry in the last 18 months has cleared the way for a handful of...