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According to Symantec Corp.’s twice-yearly Internet Security Threat Report, hackers found 47 bugs in Mozilla Corp.’s open-source browsers and 38 bugs in Internet Explorer during the first six months of this year. That’s up significantly from the 17 Mozilla and 25 IE bugs found in the previous six months. Even Apple’s Safari browser saw its [...]
Computer security analysts who fight spam face the same thankless task as goalkeepers: They don’t get much credit for the unsolicited e-mail they stop, only demerits for the ones that get through. But those few messages that wriggle past increasingly sophisticated filters constitute the greatest threats on the Internet. The messages range from relatively harmless [...]
Trying to lock down your company’s applications and protect your systems from attack? If so, security scanners and source-code analysis tools are not up to the job — despite vendor claims to the contrary. “There’s an awful lot of marketing spiel, people introducing technology tools that are sold as silver bullets,” said Mark Curphey, vice [...]
Hackers have discovered a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer, and they’ve released code that could be used to attack users of Microsoft Corp.’s popular browser. The vulnerability is similar to a bug that Microsoft patched last month in a multimedia component of Internet Explorer, according to Vincent Hwang, a group product manager with Symantec’s Security [...]
PandaLabs has detected a spam message that uses subliminal advertising techniques. At first glance, it is an advertisement that gives the user the opportunity to buy certain stocks online. However, the user not only sees a static image, but also a sequence of images that are displayed extremely rapidly. To be more specific, there are [...]
Perhaps you followed the dramatic headlines in May as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs came to grips with the fact that it had lost a laptop (that has since been recovered) with personal information on 26.5 million veterans and active-duty soldiers, potentially exposing them to identity theft. Since then, you might have overlooked the [...]