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MySpace teams to create sex-offender database
The social networking site has paired up with an ID verification firm to build a national database of convicted sex offenders, a technology the service hopes will enable it to keep predators out of its community. 2006-12-05 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11428 Social sites' insecurity increasingly worrisome Security issues at MySpace and other sites have raised fears over protecting users against Trojan horse programs masquerading as user-created content. 2006-12-02 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11427 Bot spreads through antivirus, Windows flaws University campuses are dealing with a spate of infections caused by a bot program that compromises computers running unpatched versions of Windows and an older version of Symantec's antivirus software. 2006-11-28 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11426 Viruses go virtual Online worlds--from Second Life to the World of Warcraft--pave the way to a virtual future, replete with tailored viruses and digital diseases. 2006-11-22 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11425 Malware goes to the movies Online attackers start to experiment with embedding malicious code or links to such code in video files. 2006-11-15 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11424 E-voting worries focus on failures, not fraud No obvious election fraud tainted the midterm elections, but e-voting machine critics stress that Election Day failures should raise a red flag. 2006-11-10 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11423 Attackers end-run around IE security Microsoft shored up the security of its flagship browser with the latest release, but the software still lets through attacks on ActiveX flaws in other components of Windows. 2006-11-07 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11422 Quantum attacks worry computer scientists Malicious software and viruses could inhabit the weird world of quantum computing, a fact that has convinced some researchers to study how to defend against non-classical attacks. 2006-10-31 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11421 Bot nets likely behind jump in spam A significant rise in the global volume of spam in the past two months worries security analysts and suggests that bot-net-based bulk e-mail operations are rapidly becoming the norm. 2006-10-27 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11420 Researcher attempts to shed light on security troll A security consultant claims to have identified a group of people that taunted researchers and hackers on the Full Disclosure mailing list, arguing that the group is linked to the retired hacker known as Gobbles. 2006-10-20 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11419 |
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