What are the security goodies coming in Vista SP1?   29 Aug 2007 18:34 GMT
As reported by Mary Jo Foley and Ed Bott, Microsoft has finally confirmed that Windows Vista SP1 actually exists and will serve as a cumulative roll-up of patches and bug fixes released over the last six months. This white paper written by Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc, spells...
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Retail point-of-sale systems riddled with security flaws, warns researcher   29 Aug 2007 13:00 GMT
Retail point-of-sale systems are vulnerable to hacks that can expose credit card data, according to security researcher Neal Krawetz.

Source: Computerworld

Firms fret bombings may undermine Indian IT hub   28 Aug 2007 15:07 GMT
Two incidents in Hyderabad unlikely to dissuade Indian businessmen, but some worry foreign investors will be scared off. Two bombings within three months that killed dozens in India's prominent IT city of Hyderabad have set off alarm bells for many companies who worry investor sentiment could start to sour.Last week,...
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Symantec unveils 2008 consumer security software   28 Aug 2007 13:00 GMT
Symantec Corp. has released new editions of its consumer Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security software, adding browser defenses for some users in both packages and wrapping its new identity initiative into the software.

Source: Computerworld

New attacks leave online transactions vulnerable even after sign-on authentication   28 Aug 2007 13:00 GMT
Even site keys aren't good enough if clever hackers take over a transaction via emerging techniques such as 'man-in-the-browser' attacks.

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Canonical downplays Ubuntu hacks   28 Aug 2007 13:00 GMT
Company says affected servers were running old, unpatched versions of Ubuntu as well as a number of insecure Web applications.

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Japan military homes, destroyer raided over data leak   28 Aug 2007 13:00 GMT
Fallout from a military data breach allegedly triggered by porn and peer-to-peer file sharing in Japan continues, with the homes of several members of the country's Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) as well as a destroyer raided in the investigation. The breach comes at a bad time for U.S.-Japan relations.

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Firefox or IE? Strange answer to security question   27 Aug 2007 17:29 GMT
A study by the non-profit Honeynet Project has come up with a strange answer to the Firefox versus Internet Explorer security question.During the experiment, conducted in May 2007, the group compared three browsers -- Internet Explorer 6 SP2, Firefox 1.5.0 and Opera 8.0.0 -- to determine whether using an alternative...
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Deja vu all over again: Sony uses rootkits, charges F-Secure   27 Aug 2007 13:00 GMT
A line of USB drives sold by Sony Electronics installs files in a hidden folder that can later be used by hackers to hide malware, F-Secure Corp. charged today.

Source: Computerworld

'Storm' Trojan horse taps into YouTube fever   27 Aug 2007 13:00 GMT
The Storm Trojan horse is now spreading by way of e-mail that includes a link to what appears to be to a YouTube video, security researchers said.

Source: Computerworld