Monday, July 21, 2008 11:02 PM/CST
Researchers have found a highly critical security flaw in BEA Weblogic software that could lead to DoS attacks.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:27 AM/CST
New research highlights the growing scrutiny being put on SCADA industrial control software systems as it becomes clear that the technologies need to be further locked-down to prevent potential disaster.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:24 PM/CST
Yahoo has silently pushed out a patch for a critical vulnerability affecting users of its Yahoo Assistant browser add-on. According to an alert from "Sowhat," a researcher at Nevis Labs, the vulnerability "allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable...
Monday, April 28, 2008 12:39 PM/CST
Hewlett-Packard's ongoing struggle to keep its software updater free of serious ActiveX control vulnerabilities is showing no signs of letting up. According to a "highly critical" alert issued by Secunia, the HP Software Update package pre-installed on notebooks contains...
Thursday, April 24, 2008 3:21 PM/CST
The latest refresh of Opera's flagship Web browser comes with several crucial security features. With Opera 9.5 Beta 2 (code-named Kestrel), the Norwegian company has added fraud-protection capabilities and support for EV SSL (Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer) Certificates...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:13 AM/CST
Apple's Safari browser is beginning to look like a bullet-ridden car in Iraq. According to a warning posted to security mailing lists, there are multiple security flaws in Safari 3.1.1 that put users at risk of ID-theft spoofing attacks or,...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:43 PM/CST
There's a serious brain drain affecting the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) initiative and it's not a good sign for security. The latest high-profile defector from the nonprofit organization is Walter Bender, a former MIT Media Lab executive who...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:12 AM/CST
Adobe has issued a prepatch advisory for a critical vulnerability in Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2, its free image-manipulation software product. The flaw, which affects Windows users, could be exploited to launch code execution attacks if the target is...
Monday, April 21, 2008 4:05 PM/CST
Hackers are having fun exposing security holes in Barack Obama's official campaign site. According to a post over at XSSed.com, a site that catalogs cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, one of the multiple holes in Obama's site was exploited to redirect...
Monday, April 21, 2008 2:10 PM/CST
Microsoft has chosen a new song to continue its public slow dance with the white hat hacking community: online properties like *.microsoft.com, *.msn.com and *.live.com. According to Dan Goodin reporting from Toorcon Seattle, Microsoft security strategist Katie Moussouris pledged...