The Olympic Games in London have sparked interest from fraudsters, with a raft of sites supposedly offering live video streams of events, according to security vendor Trend Micro. Trend Micro called out on Sunday more than a dozen sites ...
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Java's recent security woes are not scaring off developers, who don't see Java as any more vulnerable than any other platform. "There's nothing fundamentally wrong with Java," says Gonzalo Diethelm, in charge of architecture and development ...
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Some security researchers wonder if Microsoft will indeed retire Windows XP on April 8, 2014, as the vendor has announced. After that date, Microsoft will no longer distribute official security updates or bug fixes for the ancient ...
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LockLizard delivers the first portable, zero footprint PDF DRM USB security product. The first truly zero installation PDF DRM system is now here - NO: downloads; plug-ins; JavaScript or Flash risks; self-extracting exes; or applications ...
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A European aeronautical supplier's website has been infected with a state-sponsored zero-day exploit, according to security firm, Sophos. Business IT administrators and other computer users should use caution in the light of the discovery ...
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Any organisations that have not yet replaced outdated security certificates will have to act quickly to meet the Microsoft deadline. From 9 October, Microsoft systems will require all public key infrastructure (PKI) digital certificates ...
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Network World - Fidelis Security Systems has an interesting perspective on the world of security, working, as it does, with the U.S. government to keep other countries from prying into some of our nation's most critical networks. Now that ...
Tags: Foreign, Governments, U.S.
Dropbox said Tuesday one of its employee's accounts was compromised,leading to a raft of spam last month that irritated users of the cloud-storage service. A stolen password was used to access the employee's account,which contained"a ...
Tags: Dropbox, spam attack, two-factor authentication, security problem