Flash attack may as well have been zero-day   03 Jun 2008 19:45 GMT
Guest Editorial by Dino Dai Zovi It has almost been a week since the Adobe Flash zero-day attack false alarm.  Since then, a number of people have called Symantec out as being irresponsible for crying wolf and announcing the raising the ThreatCon without fully researching the vulnerability (Full...
Source: ZDNet

Debunking yet another bogus malware study   02 Jun 2008 21:05 GMT
Here we go again, with yet another round of bogus reporting about the extent of malware infections in the United States. This morning I read a report by Nick Farrell of The Inquirer, which was accompanied by the screamer headline One in Four US computers infected. It links in turn to a much longer...
Source: ZDNet

Apple releases Mac OS X Leopard Security Guide   02 Jun 2008 21:01 GMT
Apple offers sys-admins almost 250 pages of security best-practices and tips to protect Mac OS X Leopard clients. Released on Monday, the guide document is a 3.4MB PDF. The guide is aimed at experienced users, Apple says, familiar with the Terminal application and its command-line interface. ...
Source: ZDNet

Michael Dell's 2008 compensation almost halved, but security tab remains   02 Jun 2008 19:45 GMT
Dell CEO Michael Dell saw his total compensation in fiscal 2008 fall to $2.33 million from $4.5 million in 2007 as his stock option awards fell. However, Dell's security bill topped $1 million for the second year in a row. According to Dell's proxy statement filed with the SEC...
Source: ZDNet

Motorola's next-gen Good technology to support apps wirelessly, securely   02 Jun 2008 13:00 GMT
Good Technology, purchased a year ago by Motorola, will ship its next-generation product in the fourth quarter with a secure application connection.

Source: Computerworld

Smart phones 'bigger security risk' than laptops   02 Jun 2008 13:00 GMT
Senior IT personnel are more worried about the security of their end users' smart phones than they are about laptops, according to a newly-released survey.

Source: Computerworld

Fixing Security Blind Spots   02 Jun 2008 13:00 GMT
(Source: Computerworld) Blind spots are bad for drivers and potentially disastrous for IT security professionals and the companies they are supposed to protect. As often as not, these security blind spots involve internal employees and third parties with network access. Resolving this problem with insider threats is quickly becoming a central priority in the IT world.

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Source: Computerworld

News to know: Adobe; Apple; Facebook; Microsoft security   02 Jun 2008 09:24 GMT
Notable headlines: Zach Whitaker: Students try to bring down Facebook Dancho Danchev: Microsoft's CAPTCHA successfully broken Ryan Naraine: Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warning Obama looking for help thwarting Web site hackers Chinese female hacking group spotted ActiveX...
Source: ZDNet

Microsoft urges Windows users to shut down Safari   01 Jun 2008 05:52 GMT
Microsoft is warning Windows users to avoid Apple.'s Safari Web browser until a patch is available for holes that could let attackers compromise computers.

Source: Computerworld