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Firms atwitter over social-net threats
Security firms warn that a variety of attackers — from phishers to rogue security applications — are now using social-network applications, such as Twitter and Facebook, to spread. 2009-06-23 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Microsoft's launches free AV offering The company plans to allow a limited number of users to download the beta version of it Security Essentials software, which will protect against viruses and rootkits. 2009-06-23 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Security-software market shrugs off economy Worldwide revenue for security software grew at a double-digit rate in 2008 and, despite slowing economy, will continue to grow this year, Gartner analysts say. 2009-06-22 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Not all apps equal in Iranian filtering An analysis of the traffic patterns coming out of Iran's national Internet provider shows that the country has severely curtailed SSH, Flash and Bittorrent communications. 2009-06-19 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Looking back: GhostNet dismantled in a day Investigators took 10 months to investigate the surveillance network; once the gig was up, its creators took the botnet offline in about a day, says one researcher. 2009-06-18 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Coming to terms with cyber warfare The first step to waging war on the Internet is figuring out a working definition, say experts at NATO's cyber warfare think tank. 2009-06-17 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment MSFT, Adobe and Apple patch together The three software companies issue major patches, fixing 31 vulnerabilities in Microsoft's operating system and applications, more than a dozen issues in Adobe, and over 50 serious flaws in Apple's Safari browser. 2009-06-10 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Data shows Grumblar still threatens A Web security firms finds that the drive-by-download threat compromised more than 80,000 Web sites by late May. 2009-06-08 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment Microsoft warns of DirectX attacks The software giant is working to create a patch for vulnerability that exposes Windows 2000 and XP to attack. 2009-06-03 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment U.S. issues revised e-voting standards The National Institute of Standards and Technology hopes to address security issues by adding better accuracy and reliability testing and more rules to ease the auditing of paper trails. 2009-06-01 Read more ... | Comment(s) | Post Comment |
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