Dan Kaplan

A DNS design flaw, which could have allowed remote attackers to silently hijack web sessions, prompted Tuesday's release of an unprecedented multivendor patch. Mozilla Firefox and Opera this week issued patches for a number of vulnerabilities in their browsers. The RSA Conference continues to strengthen its hold as the industry's most important gathering for IT security pros. SC US handed out crystal balls to several analysts, consultants, professors and CSOs and asked them to answer questions about next year. Microsoft announced today it plans to release seven patches – three repairing "critical" vulnerabilities – as part of its monthly security update on Tuesday. A bipartisan bill that would impose harsher restrictions on cyberattacks and permit identity theft victims to seek financial restitution in federal court is ... Oracle on Tuesday delivered 51 fixes in a quarterly patch distribution that included an updated scoring system for organisations to measure the risk and ... In one of its lighter Patch Tuesday cycles in recent months, Microsoft released four fixes, including a patch for a critical vulnerability in its Windows ... The path leading to more secure computing is lined in simplicity – and more than one password, Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and chief executive officer, ...