Websense is to launch new email and web security services.
Websense Hosted Email Security and Websense Hosted Web Security enable protection from emerging Web 2.0 and converged threats. With recent claims made that the cloud can be a potential host for malware, the email service will clean a message in the cloud before it reaches its destination.
unbelt Software has announced the top ten most prevalent spyware and malware threats spotted in January.
Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon has said he is ‘safe’ until the director of public prosecutions makes a decision about whether to prosecute him in the UK.
Server break-in nets info on people who were on agency’s payroll in February 2006
February 10, 2009 (Computerworld) The Federal Aviation Administration disclosed yesterday that it is investigating a data breach in which the personal data of about 45,000 employees and retirees was apparently stolen from a server at the agency.
Security experts from US government agencies, multinational companies and academia have released a list of what they consider to be the 25 most critical errors made while coding software.
Security researchers have discovered a flaw affecting Google’s Chrome browser that exposes it to clickjacking â where an attacker hijacks a browser’s functions by substituting a legitimate link with a link of the attacker’s choice.
Adobe said it plans to release an update by May 12 for the recently disclosed Reader and Acrobat vulnerability. In doing so, Adobe will push out Windows updates for Reader and Acrobat versions 7, 8 and 9 and Macintosh and Unix updates for versions 8 and 9, David Lenoe, Adobe’s security program manager, said Friday afternoon in a blog post. The company also has confirmed a second vulnerability in its Reader for Unix software, which also is slated to be fixed in next week’s update, Lenoe said. That bug does not affect Windows or Mac versions, but Adobe is investigating whether it can “reproduce an exploitable scenario.”
A lot of personal information for a lot of people. That’s what officials at the University of California, Berkeley say has been compromised by a hacking attack. Officials say hackers have gotten their mitts on restricted computer databases containing health and other personal information on 160,000 students, alumni and others. The data affected includes Social Security numbers, birth dates, health insurance information and some medical records dating as far back as 1999.
Google released a new version of its Chrome browser Thursday to fix a high-severity security problem. The problem affects Google’s mainstream stable version of Chrome and is fixed in the new version 1.0.154.59. Google has built Chrome so it updates itself automatically with no user intervention, though the software must be restarted for the new version to run.
Microsoft has failed to remove a long-recognised Windows Explorer security risk from Windows 7, according to security company F-Secure. The ‘hide extensions’ feature, which was present in Windows NT, 2000, XP and Vista, is included in the Windows 7 release candidate, F-Secure’s chief research officer, Mikko HyppĂśnen, said. The feature could allow virus writers to trick users into opening and running malicious files, he added.