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Adobe revamps Reader, Acrobat updater
The company plans to roll out a completely rewritten utility to prod users into staying current with the latest version of its ubiquitous software. 2010-01-06 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment China sued over Green Dam code A California company files a $2.2 billion suit against the People's Republic of China, two software firms, and seven PC makers alleging that China's filtering software copied its own product's code. 2010-01-05 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Zeus software behind one-in-ten botnets Security firm Damballa finds do-it-yourself Zeus kits at the heart of a large number of botnets, spawning a third-party developer ecosystem. 2010-01-05 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Conficker infections drop overnight People have one more reason to celebrate the new year: Nearly a million Conficker-infected computers disappeared overnight. 2010-01-04 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment UltraDNS suffers attack, Amazon affected The domain-name service provider saw an "abnormal spike" in traffic, which reportedly impacts Amazon, Wal-Mart and other retailers. 2009-12-28 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Lookout aims to lockdown smart phones The startup firm plans to release consumer software to protect data from malware and thieves starting in 2010. 2009-12-23 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment White House appoints cybersecurity advisor The Obama administration selects Howard Schmidt, formerly of Microsoft and eBay, to be the nation's first Cybersecurity Coordinator. 2009-12-22 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Twitter investigates DNS hijack The popular social network's domain name gets hijacked for part of Thursday night, routing users to another domain and a defacement page. 2009-12-18 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Limited attacks target Adobe Acrobat Security groups acknowledge seeing attacks using an critical and unpatched flaw in the Javascript library of Adobe's Acrobat and Reader software. 2009-12-15 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment SQL attacks take off in last year IBMs security team sees attempts to hack databases jump to about 600,000 attempts per day, from under 5,000 per day in May 2008. 2009-12-14 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment |
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