Security firm Entrust has announced that it is withdrawing from a voluntary online security standards organisation that it co-founded and co-chaired for six years. The move follows the introduction of a mandatory Intellectual Property ...
Tags: SSL, CA/Browser Forum, Security firm, the IPR policy
Network World - LAS VEGAS -- To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Black Hat Conference here, a panel of experts got together to expound on what they see as the privacy and security mess of our times, and they had plenty to say about the ...
Tags: U.S., Google, Conference
Computerworld-Yahoo today confirmed that 450,000 unencrypted usernames and passwords were stolen Wednesday from one of its services,although it downplayed the threat. "We confirm that an older file from Yahoo!Contributor ...
Tags: Yahoo Confirms, unencrypted passwords, Yahoo Contributor Network
Microsoft today patched 16 vulnerabilities, including one in Windows that's been exploited for weeks and two in Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) in the first-in-years back-to-back browser update. Of Tuesday's nine security updates, three were ...
Tags: Microsoft, USA, Windows, Internet Explorer
New email-based attacks, some of which target the aerospace industry, are distributing new variants of the Sykipot information stealing malware, according to researchers from security firm AlienVault. "We have detected a new wave of ...
The controllers of Flame,the most powerful cyber weapon discovered to date,have recently sent a kill command that removes the malware from some infected computers. However,the attackers are still in control of some ...
Tags: Malware, Command, Flame, Cyber Weapon
Microsoft has released a security update for its Windows operating system to block three fraudulent certificates used by Flame,the most powerful cyber weapon discovered to date. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab,who discovered Flame ...