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Scientists prove one microkernel's security
A group of Australian computer scientists take a quarter century of man-years to perform a formal proof on 7,500 lines of code. 2009-08-17 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Apple patches Safari, DNS software The consumer technology firm releases two software updates to fix six vulnerabilities in its browser and a single issue with the domain-name software included with Mac OS X. 2009-08-14 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Brazen botnet uses Twitter comm channel A researcher finds a feed on the social network with encrypted commands used by a botnet to disseminate links to malicious software. 2009-08-14 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Microsoft patches ActiveX, Office flaws The software giant releases nine patches to fix critical issues in its ActiveX controls, Office software, and Windows Media libraries. 2009-08-12 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Survey: More companies monitoring e-mail Four out of ten companies employ staff to monitor or analyze e-mail content, according to one vendor study. 2009-08-11 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Twitter, Facebook fend off DoS attacks The social-networking companies blame denial-of-service attacks, as users have trouble reaching the services. 2009-08-06 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Top U.S. cybersecurity aide resigns, report says Melissa Hathaway, the acting cyber strategist for the Obama administration, has dropped out of the running for the nation's top cybersecurity post. 2009-08-04 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Apple patches iPhone SMS vulnerability The consumer technology firm patches a critical iPhone flaw that could have allowed attackers to execute code just by sending a specially-crafted text message. 2009-08-04 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Defense deputy calls for identity chief To secure the Internet in the future, anonymity has to be "driven out," says the top information-security officer at the U.S. Department of Defense. 2009-08-01 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Nmap gets a major upgrade Fyodor announces the release of the latest version of the popular network-exploration and security-auditing tool on Thursday, improving performance and adding several new features. 2009-07-17 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment |
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