Three image-rendering flaws in the Windows operating system could put millions of Internet-connected users at risk of PC takeover attacks, Microsoft Corp. warned on Tuesday. The flaws could be exploited via any software that...
A new trojan horse attempting to hide itself using techniques enabled by the Sony's anti-piracy software. The trojan horse is being referred to as Backdoor.IRC.Snyd.A (BitDefender), Backdoor.Win32.Breplibot.b (Kaspersky),...
A Trojan horse discovered on Tuesday includes a fully working -- but pirate -- copy of an anti-virus application called ExoVirusStop by exoSyphen Studios. Mobile phone malware is often disguised as a security application in order to...
Microsoft's beta antispyware program will be called Windows Defender in its final version and will include protection against rootkits and keystroke loggers, a company official said. Microsoft released its Windows AntiSpyware beta...
Cisco Systems has patched a "critical" flaw in its main router operating system that could allow remote attackers to take over a network. The update fixes a heap-overflow vulnerability in the Internetwork Operating System (IOS), which is used...
Skype Technologies updated its popular Skype Internet telephony software on Tuesday to fix a pair of security bugs. The most serious flaw could allow an attacker to commandeer a user's PC. That flaw, which is similar to a bug Skype fixed last...
Oracle has released fixes for a laundry list of security vulnerabilities in many of its software products. The "Critical Patch Update," part of Oracle's quarterly patch release cycle, delivers...
Mobile phone users will soon be using antivirus software in their phones. While mobile phone viruses are still relatively new, infrequent and largely confined to smart phones that run the Symbian operating system, it will eventually be a...
Microsoft on Tuesday issued nine separate security patches, fixing vulnerabilities in DirectX, Exchange, Internet Explorer, and Windows itself. Three of the fixes were deemed "critical," four "important," and two "moderate." All of the...
Users of Symantec Corp.'s AntiVirus Scan Engine are being advised to upgrade their software, as a result of a critical security bug in the product. The flaw could theoretically allow an attacker to take control of an affected system, according to a...
Information Technology risk has become one of the most significant corporate threats and a major issue for risk managers, according to a survey of 218 senior risk managers by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The survey, which captures the...
Symantec Corporation, makers of Norton Anti-Virus and other security products, posted a warning yesterday on their Security Response Center about a new Trojan designed specifically for the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP)...
America Online, the online division of Time Warner Inc., on Wednesday said it plans to step up protections against the illegal gathering of subscribers' sensitive data through fraudulent Web sites. AOL said it has struck partnerships with...
A major anti-virus vendor's software is itself open to attack, an independent security researcher said Monday. According to Alex Wheeler, who earlier this year disclosed bugs in many of the biggest security vendors' products, Kaspersky...
The dream of a connected world where PCs and mobile phones can communicate with the digital home and other devices is supposed to make life easier. But it could instead make life far more dangerous if malware developers have their way...
More computers in the Asia-Pacific region are being hijacked and used remotely by hackers to send viruses, according to a recent study by security vendor Symantec. The number of such "bot infected" systems in China alone grew more than...
PandaLabs has announced the emergence of a new worm that spreads via peer-to-peer networks including Shareaza and iMesh, which hijacks visits to Google.com and redirects users to a spoofed page that inserts third-party advertising...
A new worm modifies the infected PC so attempts to search using Google are directed to a spoofed site that looks like the real thing, but with different sponsored links to drive traffic to sites the hacker's designated, a security firm said Friday...
Almost five months after the data security rules mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act went into effect, many health care companies still aren't fully compliant with them, according to IT managers and analysts...
Barely 24 hours after giving advanced notice of its monthly "Patch Tuesday" fixes, Microsoft late Friday said that it was scrapping the updates over a "quality issue." Microsoft had planned to release a single bulletin for a critical...
