The government made requests for data on as many as 10,000 Apple user accounts through May 31, Apple said, adding that most of the requests involved criminal matters, though some pertained to national security.
Despite a rating of “Important,” a Microsoft Office 2003 zero-day vulnerability and patch deserve a close look from enterprise IT administrators.
A man in the browser attack has been detected against CareerBuilder’s website. The attack redirects victims to a money-mule recruitment website.
The Senate Appropriations Committee grilled NSA Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander over the agency’s surveillance of Americans’ phone call data.
BlackBerry has issued security advisories warning of vulnerabilities in the Z10 smartphone and PlayBook tablet.
Microsoft and Adobe released their monthly security updates and patches. Microsoft also announced enhancements to its certificate-handling infrastructure.
A researcher has discovered that an unnamed industrial control system device’s firmware contains a hard-coded credential that enables it to connect to the device vendor’s FTP service.
The Washington Free Beacon’s website has been attacked and malware is redirecting visitors to a site hosting the ZeroAccess rootkit and scareware.
A sizable number of web servers running vulnerable Plesk software including a number of Apache servers make up a new IRC botnet.
Panelists at the NG Security Summit in Denver debate the challenges hindering the sharing of threat intelligence and attack data, especially between competitors in the same industry.
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