Security Bytes
Enterprise network security
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The changing face of information security
- R.I.S.C. Associates 26 Jun 2008 -
Srizbi botnet blamed for malicious spam surge
- Editor 25 Jun 2008 -
Yahoo Mail flaw found and fixed
- Editor 25 Jun 2008
In the last eight years or so, I've probably been to more than 100 security conferences, workshops, trade shows and seminars, and I'm hard-pressed to come up with one that's been more informative ...
A sharp rise in the volume of malicious spam this month can be largely attributed to the Srizbi botnet, according to researchers at Marshal. Spam intended to infect users' computers with malware ...
Researchers at Cenzic discovered a vulnerability in Yahoo Mail that could allow attackers to steal Yahoo identities and potentially access users’ sensitive information. The company, a Web ...
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Proofpoint acquires email archiving provider Fortiva
- R.I.S.C. Associates 24 Jun 2008 -
TippingPoint reports Firefox 3.0 flaw
- Editor 19 Jun 2008 -
Panda security researchers warn of new worm tool
- TechTarget 19 Jun 2008 -
Third Brigade acquires OSSEC project
- Editor 17 Jun 2008 -
Billing records of 2.2 million stolen
- Editor 11 Jun 2008 -
Critical flaw found in SNMPv3
- R.I.S.C. Associates 10 Jun 2008 -
Stanford issues alert about stolen laptop
- Editor 09 Jun 2008
The steady drumbeat of acquisitions in the security industry continues, with the latest deal being Proofpoint's purchase today of email archiving provider Fortiva. The deal is another indicator of ...
TippingPoint said a researcher submitted a critical vulnerability affecting Firefox 3.0 to its Zero Day Initiative just five hours after Mozilla released the updated open source browser Tuesday. In ...
Security researchers at antivirus vendor Panda Security have discovered an application that turns executable files into a worm that can spread and cause damage on infected machines. The tool is so ...
Third Brigade, a host intrusion prevention software company, has acquired OSSEC, an open source, host-based IDS. The vendor said the OSSEC project will remain open source while it provides ...
The University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics said Tuesday that a metal box of backup tapes containing billing records for about 2.2 million patients and guarantors was stolen from a car belonging ...
US-CERT and others are warning enterprises about a critical vulnerability in the current version of the SNMP protocol, which could allow an attacker to bypass the protocol's authentication ...
Stanford University is notifying 72,000 current and former employees that a laptop containing their personal data was stolen. The university said on Friday that it's sending emails and letters to ...
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Trend Micro warns of MySpace phishing attack
- TechTarget 09 Jun 2008 -
Hong Kong is the shadiest neighborhood on the Net
- R.I.S.C. Associates 04 Jun 2008 -
Sophos video ties malware to Google Earth, Britney Spears
- TechTarget 04 Jun 2008 -
Walter Reed message discloses P2P connection to breach
- TechTarget 03 Jun 2008 -
Users may be the weakest link, but it’s not their fault
- R.I.S.C. Associates 03 Jun 2008
Rather than sending a fake email from a financial institution, a phisher is using the popular social networking site MySpace.com to dupe people into giving up their personal information and ...
Everyone knows which neighborhoods in their city are the ones to avoid, but figuring out where not to go on the Web is a much murkier proposition. There are plenty of specific sites that users ...
Some security researchers at malware protection vendor Sophos have created a video that really gives people a visual of how complicated Web-based attacks can be. No, they’re not exploiting erotic ...
SearchSecurity wrote a story this morning about officials at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center investigating how the personal information of 1,000 former patients was left unsecured on a hospital ...
Security experts and vendor execs are fond of saying that users are always the weak point in any security system. They open malicious emails, visit sketchy Web sites and write down their passwords ...