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  • 4 critical flaws patched this Patch Tuesday

    Microsoft’s June Security Bulletin covers range of vulnerabilities. Microsoft ‘s latest ‘Patch Tuesday’ security bulletin, released yesterday, includes fixes for six vulnerabilities, four of which are rated ‘critical’. In the June release two of the fixes plug holes in Vista and earlier versions of the operating system, a third patch fixes a vulnerability in Internet…

  • Bugs found in Apple’s new Windows browser within hours of release

    Safari not so good-y. A number of security researchers say they found bugs in Apple ‘s brand new web browser Safari for Windows just hours after its public beta release on 11 June. The only bug to have been independently verified so far was discovered by researcher Thor Larholm and concerns Safari ‘s failure to…

  • Spammer enters guilty plea

    Admits to having spammed 1.2 million AOL customers. A Brooklyn man has pleaded guilty to having sent spam messages to over 1.2 million AOL customers in August 2005. According to the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 26-year-old Adam Vitale and his co-defendant Todd Moeller were caught out after having entered into…

  • ‘Direct’ cost of malware infections on the decline

    Report finds direct costs from malware infections declined over last two years. A report by Computer Economics has stated that the financial impact of malware infections fell to $13.3 billion in 2006, from $14.2 billion in 2005, and $17.5 billion in 2004. The report is based on a survey of IT security professionals and IT…

  • Serious holes in Yahoo! Messenger

    Critical vulnerabilities fully disclosed. Two security flaws in the popular Yahoo! Messenger communications software have been reported, with full details available online before a fixed version of the product became available. Initial reports of the flaws, both buffer overflow issues in ActiveX controls used by the software, imply they are simple to exploit, with in-depth…

  • Spam barrages take down filters, networks

    Report shows increase in spam bombardment attacks. MessageLabs ‘ monthly report on the latest trends in spam has warned of an alarming rise in ‘spam spikes’, targeted attacks which use high volumes of spam directed at a single company in an attempt to overwhelm gateway spam filters. The aim of the attack is to cause…

  • Amero case sent for retrial

    Spyware popup teacher told earlier trial was flawed. Connecticut temporary teaching assistant Julie Amero, convicted of exposing minors to danger when a classroom computer she had been using displayed a barrage of pornography, has heard her case will be sent back to the courts after the earlier trial was found to have relied on evidence…

  • Microsoft details ‘Stirling’ integrated suite

    Comprehensive security product promised in next-gen Forefront. Microsoft , whose Forefront corporate anti-malware system is the latest step in a continuing onslaught on the security market, has unveiled early details of the next step in its development, a broad and integrated system code-named ‘Stirling’. The ‘Stirling’ project, due to be revealed in an early beta…

  • Online malware dangers analysed

    Google, McAfee release webserver, search result figures. Two reports out this week have revealed some interesting statistics on the security dangers involved in browsing the Internet, with Google surveying the software running on webservers and which systems carry the most threats, while McAfee ‘s study of search results reveals the dangers lurking in links provided…

  • CA struck by vulnerability

    CAB handling issue affects swathe of products. Two flaws related to the handling of CAB archive files by the CA anti-virus engine have been reported, rendering products across CA ‘s range vulnerable exploitation allowing remote access to affected systems. One flaw is a buffer overflow caused by excessively long filenames within CAB archives, while the…

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