Microsoft to Ship 8 Bulletins in October
Microsoft is set to release eight bulletins in the October edition of Patch Tuesday. Two of the bulletins are rated as critical while the remaining six were given important ratings.
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Steve Jobs’ Death Saddens World, Inspires Spammers
It was one of those odd moments where the entire online community was briefly unified in its mourning of the tech visionary, Apple co-founder, and former CEO whose life-work has demanded nearly universal respect. But as with everything else on the Internet, it didn’t last long. The dregs of the Web showed up in short-order to exploit the death of Steve Jobs, who died of cancer last night at the age of 56.
Fed Seeks Industry Standard for Botnet Mitigation
The Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security met with various other government agencies and private-sector leaders yesterday to discuss the need for a code of conduct for detecting, mitigating, and otherwise dealing with botnets.
NSS Labs’ announced today that their penetration-testing site, Exploithub, will be offering bounties to researchers for developing exploits for12 high-value vulnerabilities.
VIEW SLIDESHOW iPhone Security Features Through the Years In typical fashion, all of five minutes had passed after the iPhone 4 release when Mac’s quasi-religious fan base kick-started the iPhone 5 rumor-mill. Fast-forward to now: Apple recently announced they’d be talking iPhone today at a 1 p.m. press conference.
Facebook, a wildly popular social media platform you may or may not have heard of has partnered with the security firm, Websense, in order to better protect the network’s some 800 million users from malicious links leading to websites hosting malware.
Military health service providers, TRICARE and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) report a data breach of involving the personal information of an estimated 4.9 million military clinic and hospital patients.
Redmond, Washington software giant, Microsoft, and Detroit based GM subsidiary, OnStar backtracked on policies widely seen as egregious privacy violations following lawsuits and public outcry. Here’s the news:
Attackers are finding it more lucrative than ever to compromise e-mail marketing firms and exploit their resources to send out spam, often containing malware, according to a new report from Websense.
Following the success of the Firesheep application, a new Android application called DroidSheep allows users to hijack Web sessions of popular online services over insecure Wifi connections.
