Scramble Against MS Threats Continues
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Independent security developers, including the one that had a brief window of opportunity to patch Microsoft's VML flaw before Microsoft beat its own deadline, are now scrambling for their share of the spotlight in the wake of the re-emergence last week of an ActiveX control flaw.
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At least some MS products are hot A UK computer distributor has warned the channel to keep an eye out for a shipment of software stolen from a lorry bound for Warrington last month.â¦
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After a relatively quiet fall, mass-mailing worm begins to spread on Windows PCs. Meanwhile, the Air Force turns to Microsoft for security help.
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Legal wrangling over competing hard drive technologies continues.
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A trio of new and unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows were made public on security mailing lists over the weekend. By Gregg Keizer.
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Prompted by government regulations, endless spam, and increasingly potent e-mail viruses, many enterprises are looking to tighten the cinch around messaging security.
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Looks like the time has come when mobile users would have to seriously consider getting some protection for their devices. Mobile viruses are coming out pretty regularly now and trend seems to be pointing towards a frantic future.
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There are new movements in the ongoing war over document formats this week, with Microsoft facing new challenges and Sun Microsystems possibly facing new opportunities.
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com November 15, 2004, 5:16 PM PT. Security continues to hold steady over software as the third top IT priority, with organizations busy coping with cyber threats, keeping up with software
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com November 5, 2004, 5:24 PM PT. Security continues to hold steady over software as the third top IT priority, with organizations busy coping with cyber threats, keeping up with software
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Several antispam organizations have been targeted by an attempt to knock them offline.
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As often is the case over holiday breaks, three new vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system were discovered over the weekend.
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com October 22, 2004, 5:05 PM PT. Cyber threats, chiefly viruses like NetSky and Sasser, make security an ongoing concern as it holds steady over software infrastructure as the third top priority.
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The latest six-month report on Internet threats shows a staggering breadth and complexity. Symantec Corp.&#39;s Internet Security Threat Report (http://enterprisesecurity .
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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) continues to struggle in efforts to stay a step ahead of malware practitioners, with the latest assault targeting the software giant's anti-spyware beta product.
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(InfoWorld) - With security vendors warning of new malware that exploits a recently patched flaw in Windows, Microsoft Corp. is saying that attacks are not on the rise. Earlier this week, two new malicious programs popped up, both of which took advantage of the MS06-040 Windows Server service vulnerability. This prompted Symantec Corp. to raise its ThreatCon rating to 2 on Thursday, an indication that users should be at a heightened level of security awareness. But on Friday Microsoft said that even with these new variants, the total number of computers being attacked was unchanged. "We're not seeing an increase in attacks, just minor variations," said Stephen Toulouse, security program manager with Microsoft's Security Response Center. Symantec's Oliver Friedrichs agreed that "the overall volume of attack attempts is fairly consistent," but he said that the fact that hackers had continued to pound away at the MS06-040 vulnerability is troubling. "The fact that we are seeing more threats exploiting these vulnerabilities, that in itself is disconcerting," said Friedrichs, a director of emerging technologies in Symantec Security Response. Symantec has counted six variants of the MS06-040 attacks to date. Symantec rates the two new programs spotted this week, W32.Dasher.G and W32.Spybot.AKNO, as low risks. AÂ security bulletin on MS06-040, which affects most versions of Windows, is available. The MS06-040 patch has to do with Windows' Server services, which are used for a variety of networking tasks, such as file sharing and printing. Because the flaw relates to widely used and network-enabled features, security experts have warned that it is a likely candidate for a widespread worm. Shortly after the patch was released, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security took the unusual step of warning users of the flaw, saying it could put the nation's infrastructure at risk. To date, however, no widespread outbreak has appeared.
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com October 29, 2004, 8:21 AM PT. Cyber threats, chiefly viruses like NetSky and Sasser, make security an ongoing concern as it holds steady over software infrastructure as the third top priority.