Evolution Attack Goes Global
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Evangelicals in Kenya want to radically alter one of the world's most important exhibits of fossils recording the ascent of man from primates. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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A new version of the Santy worm appeared over Christmas, and according to analysis done by some global security firms, may pose a broader threat than its ancestors.
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The flaw exploited by the most recent versions of the worm such as Santy.C or Santy.E is more general than the original, and can occur anywhere a site designer has left the door open for the inclusion of arbitrary files into PHP scripts, reports IDG News
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User-generated Web content is becoming a target for hackers and cross-site scripting attacks on Web sites can lead to malware taking over the browsers of machines that use the sites.
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Ziff Davis - Security researchers at Immunity say they have discovered several vulnerabilities in Darwin, the Unix core of Mac OS X.
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A new family of worms which uses an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer is spreading widely across the net.
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Latest regionally-targeted attack hits Japan Trojan-touting miscreants are actively exploiting a flaw in Ichitaro, a word processing package from JustSystems that's widely used in Japan.â¦
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Servers that managed global internet traffic have been subjected to a concerted attack by hackers.
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In brief Exploit circulating for unpatched vuln
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An attack utilizing a vulnerability in an ActiveX control for the popular RealPlayer media program may be spending in a more more dangerous fashion than anyone realized. Exploit code for the vuln has been found embedded in ads served up from a popular advertising site.
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Plus: Geneticist creates new life forms, legal problems. Read what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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As many security firms feared, the source code of the dreaded Cabir virus has been posted on the Internet. This means we just might have seen the tip of the iceberg of possible variants being noticed in the wild.
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New software addresses a vulnerability that allowed previous versions to crash and execute arbitrary code.
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The outsourcing of security Comment It's the end of yet another RSA security conference, and we're tempted to trade our PCs for an abacus and hole up in the basement while the nightmarish robot invasion on mankind plays out. Malware, we were repeatedly told over the past five days, is lurking everywhere - in PCs, phones and online bazaars - and is waiting for the opportune moment to slip into our toasters and refrigerators.â¦
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It's possible that in the coming months that security-minded computer professionals will finally have a conclusive answer as to whether low malware attack rates for the Mac are due to the platform's low rate of adoption. Some experts believe that as adoption rates rise, so will attacks.
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Scientists have identified a new bug which has evolved in insects to attack humans.