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Security pros work to undo teacher's conviction
Researchers aim to recreate what caused a classroom PC to start displaying pornographic pop-ups, an incident that has led to four felony convictions for the substitute teacher involved. 2007-02-02 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11440 Vista raises the bar for flaw finders Microsoft launches its latest operating system, Windows Vista--software that security researchers say will make finding exploitable vulnerabilities a lot harder. 2007-01-29 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11439 Fraud linked to TJX data heist spreads Banks and retailers in the United States and Canada report an increasing amount of illicit transactions linked to a server breach at the company that owns retail chains in the U.S., Canada and Europe. 2007-01-26 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11438 Bug brokers offering higher bounties Private firms and government agencies will pay thousands to tens of thousands of dollars for original research on critical software flaws--no questions asked. 2007-01-23 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11437 Vulnerability tallies surged in 2006 Easy-to-find flaws in Web applications boosted--by more than a third--the number of security issues found last year, according to the major vulnerability databases. 2007-01-17 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11436 Spammers get bullish on stocks Massive e-mail campaigns aiming to pump up penny stock prices may soon make up half of all spam on the Internet. 2007-01-12 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11435 Firms see drop in spam, fraud Security companies note an unexpected 30 percent decline in spam and e-mail fraud in the last week, but the reasons behind the drop are not so clear. 2007-01-10 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11434 E-voting flaws put Florida in spotlight again A Republican congressman gets seated in the U.S. House of Representatives, but without a bug in the electronic ballot, the challenger would have won, voting experts say. 2007-01-08 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11433 Bots, breaches and bugs plague 2006 Vulnerabilities, especially in Web applications, take off, while bot nets and their controllers cause a jump in spam, and data breaches continue to worry companies and their customers. 2006-12-27 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11432 Stock scammer gets coal for the holidays The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission puts a suspected Russian brokerage-account thief's money on ice, after he allegedly used illicit access to people's portfolios to drive up stock prices. 2006-12-22 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11431 |
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