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InternetNews August 25, 2010 |
More Security Holes in Software, Fewer Patches According to IBM's X-Force security research group, vulnerabilities are proliferating, and while companies are getting better about reporting those flaws, the number of unpatched problems continues to rise. |
InternetNews March 31, 2011 |
Report: Nearly Half of Vulnerabilities Left Unpatched IBM's X-Force 2010 Trend and Risk Report details a 27 percent rise in vulnerabilities, with nearly half left unpatched by year's end. |
InternetNews February 2, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Are Legitimate Sites the Next Malware Threat? Businesses may be exposing their customers to malware by leaving their sites unpatched, IBM warns in a new study. |
InternetNews February 25, 2010 |
Malware Thrives Despite Improved Security: IBM Security researchers at IBM's X-Force find 6,601 new software vulnerabilities in 2009, down 11 percent from last, but that hasn't stopped hackers and phishers from finding new ways to rip off consumers. |
InternetNews March 21, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Surprise, Microsoft Listed as Most Secure OS Microsoft has the fewest holes and was fastest at plugging them, according to Symantec's security report. |
InternetNews December 3, 2010 |
IBM Refreshes AppScan to Secure Input Validation New release of AppScan platform - version 8 - from IBM targets cross-site scripting and SAL injection vulnerabilities with string analysis for secure coding. |
InternetNews November 23, 2009 |
IBM Outlines Top Security Trends for 2010 IBM's X-Force security team sees cyber crooks getting social and heading for the clouds. |
InternetNews July 13, 2009 |
F-Secure: Flash, ActiveX Still Under Attack Anyone who has downloaded the latest version of Firefox should make sure to update all browser plugins. |
InternetNews April 3, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner |
IBM-Sun Acquisition to Be Announced Today? Talk about a potential acquisition of Sun by IBM has been swirling for the last few weeks and now has hit a new level. |
InternetNews October 3, 2006 Roy Mark |
Cyber Criminals Turn to Home Users Phishing and spam are on a dramatic rise as home users become the prime targets of online criminals. Attacks are up 81 percent over the last six months and spam jumped 50 percent over the same period. |
InternetNews September 17, 2010 |
Are PC Security Flaws on the Wane? New survey from HP Tipping Point finds that 2006 was a high water mark for security vulnerabilities, and that the sheer volume of flaws has since been on the decline. |
InternetNews March 2, 2011 |
IBM Warns of Lax Endpoint Security New study identifies some surprising results in how and where enterprises aren't properly protecting their IT assets. |
InternetNews April 15, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Oracle Issues 43 Patches, Nails Database Exploits Oracle's latest patch update fixes critical flaws in two key software products and other flaws across the product line, but Oracle could do more to help administrators. |
InternetNews February 8, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Java Users at Risk 'Highly critical' vulnerabilities affect older versions of the Java Runtime Environment. |
InternetNews September 25, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Report: Home Users Blind To Hackers According to a new status report from security vendor Symantec, home users are the target of 86 percent of attacks. Financial services ranked second, the target of 84 percent of phishing attempts in the first half of 2006. |
InternetNews February 9, 2010 |
McAfee Finds Spike In Malware From China A new study by security software vendor McAfee finds a growing number of cyber attacks originating in China and predicts even more malware scams will target fans of popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. |
InternetNews November 6, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Adobe Unveils Another Set of Critical Patches For the second time this week, Adobe Systems has released a set of critical vulnerability patches. |
InternetNews September 9, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner |
Microsoft Updates for Media Vulnerabilities Be careful what you listen to on your PC. Hackers may want to get it. |
InternetNews May 4, 2009 Alex Goldman |
IBM Attacks Oracle With Sun Processor Bounty IBM claims to be the only major open source vendor that's increasing its market share and a new offer aims to accelerate the trend. |
InternetNews January 19, 2011 |
Oracle's Critical Patch Update Includes 66 Fixes The computer giant releases the first Critical Patch Update of 2011. Which category of products has the most vulnerabilities? |
InternetNews July 31, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Surprise! Web Vulnerabilities on The Rise Security analysis vendor Cenzic today issued its second-quarter Application Security Trends report claiming that, once again, vulnerabilities are on the rise. |
InternetNews January 21, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
Sun Cluster Vulnerable to OpenSSL Flaw Systems running Sun Cluster 3.x with SunPlex Manager configured are at risk of takeover because of known OpenSSL vulnerabilities. |
InternetNews February 3, 2005 Tim Gray |
'Critical' Patches For Windows, Messenger on Deck Monthly patch and fixes for February include flaws or vulnerabilities in Windows Media and Messenger. |
InternetNews April 9, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Microsoft: Majority of File Exploits Avoidable Microsoft's latest security report includes a new category of data with astonishing implications. |
InternetNews February 10, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner |
Microsoft Fixes IE in February Patch Update A total of eight vulnerabilities get Microsoft's attention, as does an old botnet. |
InternetNews March 25, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner |
Report: 90% of Web Sites Vulnerable to Hackers New study claims Cross-Site Scripting attacks are all over the place. Should we be afraid? |
InternetNews October 13, 2010 |
Oracle Quarterly Patch Release Fixes Java Flaws Database giant Oracle is taking the unusual step of pairing its quarterly Critical Patch Update, with a regular Java update, addressing scores of flaws, including vulnerabilities that left the door open for "drive-by download" exploits. |
InternetNews May 8, 2006 David Miller |
The Surge in Mac Attacks Just as Apple Computer launched a new ad touting OSX's resilience against viruses, the Macintosh operating system and applications have come under fire for harboring serious security flaws. |
InternetNews January 20, 2011 |
Spam Down, Java Exploits up in 2010: Cisco In its annual security review, Cisco reports that overall spam volumes declined, and Java outpaced Adobe's PDF as a favorite target of cyber-attackers. |
InternetNews July 26, 2010 |
Apple Security Holes Outnumber Windows According to Secunia, the Mac and iPhone maker is at risk from more security holes than other vendors. But Apple faithful don't need to despair just yet. |
InternetNews April 29, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Tivoli Gets a Handle on New Bugs IBM's network security manager is plugged into the security index for late-breaking bugs, viruses and vulnerabilities. |
InternetNews September 4, 2009 |
Apple Updates Leopard for Java The Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 5 includes five advisories for security vulnerabilities that could put OS X 10.5 users at risk. |
InternetNews November 27, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
SANS: Zero-Day Exploits on The Decline Latest Top 20 Vulnerabilities release shows a decrease in actual zero-day attacks, but that's not necessarily a good thing. |
InternetNews March 16, 2004 Sharon Gaudin |
Report: Threats Coming from all Sides A Symantec study shows that the number of software security flaws has leveled off over the past year. That sounds like good news until you find out that it's leveled off at seven new vulnerabilities a day, or 2,636 a year. |
InternetNews July 23, 2009 |
Adobe Flash, PDF Hit by Zero-Day Flaw If you use Adobe's Flash or Acrobat Player applications - and you probably do - you might want to be especially careful on what you click for the next week or so. |
InternetNews April 3, 2009 Andy Patrizio |
IBM's Takeover of Sun Heads for the Finish Line? After fading from the front page, the talk of an IBM/Sun Microsystems merger came roaring back to the forefront on late this week following a report in the New York Times that the talks were approaching the final stages, and Sun had dropped its asking price. |
InternetNews April 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Malware Problem Shows no Sign of Slowing It's easier than ever to write a phishing virus that looks like a Facebook app thanks to virus writer's toolkits, Symantec finds. |
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2005 David Tan |
Combating Blended Threats Security experts agree that blended threats will continue to grow in frequency, complexity and severity. |
InternetNews January 11, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Money For Vista, IE Bugs VeriSign's iDefense Labs has kicked off its Vulnerability Contributor Program, a challenge to find remote arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in Vista and Internet Explorer 7.0. VCP will pay $8,000 for the first six confirmed vulnerabilities. |
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Code Exec Bugs Hit Windows Microsoft's mum on the Windows vulnerabilities since it still hasn't released a patch for them. |
InternetNews May 2, 2007 Michael Hickins |
Mac Hack Contest Draws Fire A Gartner study takes issue with how vulnerabilities are discovered and disclosed. |
InternetNews October 17, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner |
Why Exploitability is Key to Risk Even if it's not perfect, there's a lot to like about Microsoft's Exploitability Index. |
InternetNews July 14, 2010 |
Oracle Fixes 59 Flaws in Sun, Database Tech The 59 security patches Oracle issued today with its third Critical Patch Update of the year address vulnerabilities in Sun, middleware and database technology. |
InternetNews October 17, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Oracle Patches 51, Updates Vulnerability-Scoring System Oracle's October Critical Patch Update addresses 51 vulnerabilities spread across the company's product portfolio. |
InternetNews July 25, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
SANS: No Safety From Vulnerabilities IE vulnerabilities still abound, but Apple, Mozilla and Real Player users have little to gloat about. |
InternetNews September 29, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Sun Raises Stakes For Solaris Trust Sun is taking Solaris 10 to EAL4+ certification and changing the way it develops Trusted Solaris OS. |
InternetNews February 4, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner |
IBM AppScan Takes Aim at Securing Flash New application security release tries to secure the latest Web apps, but IBM admits that challenges still remain. |
InternetNews August 26, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Still Clamoring For The Unix Lead Sun holds the top UNIX spot in terms of revenue and shipments but IBM is growing faster and claims it's the reason for Unix's continued growth. |
InternetNews March 18, 2009 Andy Patrizio |
Would a Sun-IBM Marriage Work? Overlapping products and vastly different cultures will present challenges in a merger between IBM and Sun. But if they make it work, the results could be great for both sides. |
InternetNews August 10, 2009 |
IBM Adds Web App Defense to Security Portfolio IBM today unveiled new enhancements to its security suite aimed at safeguarding Web applications and data, as attacks preying on such targets continue to dominate the headlines. |