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Jury finds for Finjan in patent suit against Secure Computing 

Jury finds for Finjan in patent suit against Secure Computing

In Hackers - By Jack Rogers, 14 March 2008 12:16 PM
A U.S. District Court of Delaware jury has found that Secure Computing, and its subsidiaries CyberGuard and Webwasher, infringed three patents that Finjan Software created over ...
ICANN recommendations on fast-flux hosting not tough enough: experts 

ICANN recommendations on fast-flux hosting not tough enough: experts

In Risk - By Jack Rogers, 13 March 2008 9:45 AM
Security experts have expressed skepticism that recent recommendations from ICANN for combatting fast-flux hosting will do much to stop the practice, which is utilised by ...
Screensaver spam is new malware from old gang: Sunbelt 

Screensaver spam is new malware from old gang: Sunbelt

In Messaging - By Jack Rogers, 11 March 2008 9:57 AM
A new wave of "3D screensaver" spam is directing recipients to a malware site from a notorious malware gang that had ceased activity in January after their site was attack by a ...
Civil liberties laywers hail US federal judge's reversal on Wikileaks.org 

Civil liberties laywers hail US federal judge's reversal on Wikileaks.org

In Web/client - By Jack Rogers, 5 March 2008 10:02 AM
A Federal judge's decision last week to reverse his own ruling and lift what he had declared was a "permanent" injunction shutting the Wikileaks.org site for posting bank ...
Phishing lures draw recipients to fake video of "dead" Castro 

Phishing lures draw recipients to fake video of "dead" Castro

In Messaging - By Jack Rogers, 4 March 2008 9:31 AM
A phishing email is in circulation attempting to lure recipients to fake news video purporting to come from a major Hispanic TV network and showing former Cuban President Fidel ...
"Goolag" search-scan tool unlikely to spawn wave of attacks 

"Goolag" search-scan tool unlikely to spawn wave of attacks

In Web/client - By Jack Rogers, 26 February 2008 10:16 AM
A new tool that uses the Google search engine to scan websites for vulnerabilities -- released last week by the flamboyant Texas-based hacking consortium known as Cult of the ...
Spam lures to eclipse "videos" laced with malware appear 

Spam lures to eclipse "videos" laced with malware appear

In Messaging - By Jack Rogers, 22 February 2008 10:05 AM
Websense has warned that spam emails have emerged which attempt to dupe recipients into downloading videos of Wednesday's total lunar eclipse in the US but instead deliver an ...
Federal judge shuts down site that leaks confidential information 

Federal judge shuts down site that leaks confidential information

In Web/client - By Jack Rogers, 21 February 2008 9:52 AM
A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the disabling of a website that discloses confidential information, a precedent-setting ruling that may raise a legal challenge to ...
Harvard University grad school site hacked, files distributed  

Harvard University grad school site hacked, files distributed

In Risk - By Jack Rogers, 20 February 2008 10:03 AM
The website of Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) apparently was hacked on Monday, with some of its database files made available on a peer-to-peer...
Spam offers bogus Hillary Clinton interview video 

Spam offers bogus Hillary Clinton interview video

In Messaging - By Jack Rogers, 15 February 2008 2:29 PM
Spammers capitalising on nationwide interest in the Democratic presidential nomination battle are sending out messages offering a link to a "Hillary Clinton video interview" ...
IDC, Forrester reduce projections for growth of IT spending in 2008 

IDC, Forrester reduce projections for growth of IT spending in 2008

In Risk - By Jack Rogers, 14 February 2008 8:16 AM
Two leading market research firms have lowered their projections for the growth of spending on information technology, including IT security, in 2008 due to the weakening economy.
Researcher releases exploit codes for Linux kernel 2.6 flaws 

Researcher releases exploit codes for Linux kernel 2.6 flaws

In Applications - By Jack Rogers, 13 February 2008 11:39 AM
A researcher has released exploit codes for newly discovered Linux kernel 2.6 flaws which could permit attackers to gain root-system privileges they can use to steal data or ...
Variants of Windows attacking Trojan.Mebroot rootkit emerge in the wild 

Variants of Windows attacking Trojan.Mebroot rootkit emerge in the wild

In Web/client - By Jack Rogers, 12 February 2008 9:43 AM
After a brief hiatus, new variants have appeared in the wild of Trojan.Mebroot, a rogue rootkit discovered in December attacking the Windows Master Boot Record (MBR), Symantec ...
Bogus Microsoft Update page appears in wild 

Bogus Microsoft Update page appears in wild

In Applications - By Jack Rogers, 11 February 2008 9:59 AM
The latest fake Microsoft Update page laced with malware comes with a sinister twist: a portion of its URL contains the URL for the software giant's actual update site, with a ...
ActiveX control flaws found in Yahoo! Music Jukebox: FrSIRT 

ActiveX control flaws found in Yahoo! Music Jukebox: FrSIRT

In Applications - By Jack Rogers, 5 February 2008 4:55 PM
Critical ActiveX control flaws have been detected in the Yahoo! Music Jukebox, which like vulnerabilities reported last week in MySpace and Facebook image uploaders, may permit ...
Critical ActiveX control flaw found in image uploader sent to users by Facebook, MySpace  

Critical ActiveX control flaw found in image uploader sent to users by Facebook, MySpace

In Web/client - By Jack Rogers, 4 February 2008 10:23 AM
Symantec has warned that a critical flaw in the ActiveX control of image uploaders that have been widely distributed to users of popular social networking sites Facebook and ...
Storm makes house calls: New messages lead to bogus medical sites, evade filters 

Storm makes house calls: New messages lead to bogus medical sites, evade filters

In Messaging - By Jack Rogers, 31 January 2008 10:47 AM
The notorious Storm worm botnet, which has mounted phishing attacks on major banks and spawned several waves of holiday-themed messages in recent weeks, is generating spam that ...
Viruses now posing on digital picture frames 

Viruses now posing on digital picture frames

In Applications - By Jack Rogers, 30 January 2008 10:05 AM
At least two brands of digital picture frames, a popular gift during the recent holiday season, have been contaminated by malware and one of the models - Insignia's 10.4-inch ...
Super Bowl blitz begins: Bogus game sites with malware popping up 

Super Bowl blitz begins: Bogus game sites with malware popping up

In Web/client - By Jack Rogers, 29 January 2008 11:17 AM
Security researchers have warned that malware-laced fake Super Bowl websites have begun appearing, the first wave of what is expected to be a major campaign of game-related ...
French bank could have a thwarted US$7 billion insider fraud with better password 

French bank could have a thwarted US$7 billion insider fraud with better password

In Networks - By Jack Rogers, 29 January 2008 10:53 AM
Societe Generale might have been able to prevent a year-long binge of fraudulent transactions by one of its mid-level traders simply by instituting stricter password controls ...
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