Threats
Symantec CEO Thompson to retire
John Thompson will retire in April, but will remain chairman of the board. Company COO Enrique T. Salem will take the helm.2008-11-17 22:27:00 source: CNET News.com
British site focusing on online scams targeted in DDoS attack
Attackers launch distributed denial-of-service attack against Bobbear site, which offers consumers information about how to protect themselves against online scams.2008-11-17 21:54:00 source: CNET News.com
Swedish data warehouse looks more like hidden lair
I know where I want to play Lasertag next.2008-11-15 15:00:00 source: CNET News.com
Encrypting hard drives on their way
Three disk drive makers have recently announced hardware-based encryption for 2009. Embrace it.2008-11-14 18:38:00 source: CNET News.com
Equifax offers its first I-card
The Equifax Over 18 card is one of the first to use the open standards from the Information Card Foundation.2008-11-14 01:23:00 source: CNET News.com
Microsoft explains seven-year patch delay
The software giant says that fixing the flaw earlier would have broken customer network applications.2008-11-13 22:04:00 source: CNET News.com
Firefox updates include a dozen security fixes
Six of the flaws are deemed critical, including one that could allow an attacker privilege escalation after a session restore.2008-11-13 20:16:00 source: CNET News.com
CA to buy Eurekify
IT management software maker plans to acquire identity and role management company Eurekify, marking its second security-related acquisition within two months.2008-11-13 16:05:00 source: CNET News.com
Spam declines after hosting company shut-down
Experts say McColo-hosted sites may have been responsible for as much as 75 percent of the spam on the Internet.2008-11-13 01:40:00 source: CNET News.com
Express Scripts clients threatened with extortion
Unable to collect money from data breach victim, criminals threaten clients whose members may have been affected.2008-11-12 22:53:37 source: CNET News.com
Report: Insiders a greater threat to data leaks
Final report based on a survey, commissioned by Cisco, on insider risks finds personal use of work devices--not stolen laptops--contributes more to leaking of corporate data.2008-11-12 21:34:00 source: CNET News.com
Security firms Marshal and 8e6 to merge
Combined company aims to offer protection for corporate and Web-based e-mail, instant messaging, and Web surfing.2008-11-12 16:00:00 source: CNET News.com
Microsoft takes 7 years to fix security exploit
A patch addressing an NTLM reflection vulnerability in the SMB protocol seems to have skipped Patch Tuesday for the last seven years.2008-11-12 04:46:00 source: CNET News.com
Energy industry at risk of cyberattack, survey says
Critical infrastructure insiders from Europe and North America say energy industry is the worst prepared for cyberattacks while financial services industry is best prepared.2008-11-12 00:15:00 source: CNET News.com
AVG update cripples some Windows XP systems
A false positive tags a Windows system file as malware, leaving some versions of Windows XP unable to reboot.2008-11-11 20:24:00 source: CNET News.com
Microsoft fixes four flaws with two patches
One security update rated "critical" affects Microsoft XML Core Services and IE, while another patch affects Microsoft Server Message Block Protocol.2008-11-11 19:59:00 source: CNET News.com
Study: DDoS attacks threaten ISP infrastructure
Arbor Networks finds that DDoS attack sizes doubled last year and were more diverse in nature, taxing the IT security resources at most Internet carriers.2008-11-11 19:20:00 source: CNET News.com
Apple fixes three iLife flaws
iLife Support 8.3.1 addresses three vulnerabilities affecting how the application processes TIFF and JPEG images.2008-11-11 00:13:00 source: CNET News.com
Nigerian scammers hit Facebook
Nigerian e-mail scam hits Facebook as Google employee fends off conmen pretending to be a friend in need of money.2008-11-10 18:37:00 source: CNET News.com
Seagate powers self-encrypting Dell PCs
Seagate, McAfee and Dell advances in self-encrypting PC computers.2008-11-10 06:01:00 source: CNET News.com