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VirusZoo aims for safe infections
A team of Web designers creates a virtual zoo, where the curious can infect a virtual system and get screenshots of the result. 2009-12-11 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Zeus botnet finds hold in Amazon cloud The bot masters behind the network of compromised computers uses a virtual machine inside Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud to send spam. 2009-12-11 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Microsoft, Adobe patch major flaws Both companies release software updates: Microsoft to close 12 holes and Adobe to fix seven vulnerabilities. 2009-12-10 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Google pushes security with Public DNS The search giant offers up its own domain-name resolvers to the public, a move that could help security, although privacy questions remain. 2009-12-04 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Northrop, colleges form cybersecurity group The defense contractor teams with MIT, Carnegie Mellon and Purdue to research cybersecurity threats and develop defenses. 2009-12-02 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment More attacks but fewer losses, survey finds Respondents to the Computer Security Institute's latest survey claim less damage, despite massive jumps in reported malware infections, denial of service and financial fraud. 2009-12-01 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Anti-spam test finds more is better Multiple spam-filtering engines increase the chance of blocking spam while decreasing the number of legitimate messages mistakenly blocked, one security-software tester finds. 2009-11-30 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Microsoft releases password attack data The software giant releases data collected from an FTP-server honeypot, showing that attempts to guess passwords continue to focus on the low-hanging fruit. 2009-11-27 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Climatologists hot over e-mail hack An unknown person leaks more than a decade of e-mail messages and some data belonging to a noted climatologist, adding fuel to the heated debate over climate change. 2009-11-23 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Firms fail to secure mobile, cloud data Nearly half of all companies have failed to put sufficient resources toward securing their data and meeting compliance requirements, a survey finds. 2009-11-20 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment |
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