Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 3 November 2010 at 18:26:00

Company issues advisory over flaw in IE 6,7 and 8

Microsoft is warning users to be on the lookout following the discovery of a
security flaw in its Internet Explorer…

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David Neal, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 2 November 2010 at 11:36:00

Chrome bounty scheme extended to YouTube, Blogger et al

Google has extended its bounty payouts to researchers who spot security
issues in some of its web applications, following a number …

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 30 October 2010 at 12:01:00

V3.co.uk rounds up the week’s top security news

This week in security has been a fairly quiet one. Adobe’s latest revelation
of a zero-day flaw in Reader, Acrobat and Flash was proba…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 28 October 2010 at 22:24:00

Adobe provides workaround, but no patch yet

Adobe has warned of attacks on a zero-day flaw in its Reader, Acrobat and
Flash applications.

The company has not released…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 27 October 2010 at 13:54:00

Hole in latest version of the Mozilla browser could lead to Trojan download

Browser manufacturer Mozilla is working on a fix for yet another critical
zero-day vulnerability in its …

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Sunday 24 October 2010 at 15:15:00

V3.co.uk rounds up the week’s top security news

This week was dominated by the government’s spending plans, and the IT
security sphere was no different. First up on our round-up list i…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 13 October 2010 at 14:50:00

Latest Security Intelligence report reveals promising stats

Positive news for the security industry emerged today after Microsoft’s
latest Security Intelligence report revealed a re…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Sunday 10 October 2010 at 09:52:00

We round up the week’s top security stories

This week was dominated by the news that Microsoft and Oracle are planning
huge patch updates on Tuesday. Other key stories included RIM fin…

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 8 October 2010 at 03:38:00

Executive says PCs without a valid ‘health certificate’ could be blocked from
internet

A security executive at Microsoft is suggesting a plan to limit internet
access fo…

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David Neal, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 28 September 2010 at 11:20:00

Administrators urged to apply fix immediately

Microsoft is preparing to release an out-of-band security fix for the ASP.NET
flaw reported earlier this month.

The company admitted to th…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Sunday 26 September 2010 at 13:20:00

V3.co.uk rounds up the week’s top security stories

This week in security was dominated by yet another threat to Twitter users. A
newly uncovered vulnerability was exploited to delive…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 22 September 2010 at 11:55:00

Micro-blogging site admits it knew about the XSS flaw before it caused havoc
yesterday

Twitter has admitted that it issued a patch last month for the cross-site
scripting flaw whi…

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David Neal, V3.co.uk, Monday 20 September 2010 at 13:32:00

Customers urged to apply fix immediately

Microsoft has published a workaround for a security vulnerability in its
ASP.NET software which was exposed last week.

The company admitted to t…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 18 September 2010 at 14:47:00

V3.co.uk rounds up the week’s top security stories

This week was dominated by another big buy for HP, this time the $1.5bn deal
for ArcSight. Elsewhere, Adobe disclosed more vulner…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 9 September 2010 at 02:55:00

Attack already being exploited in the wild

Adobe has warned of critical vulnerabilities in its popular Reader and
Acrobat applications.

The flaws affect Adobe Reader…

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 9 September 2010 at 00:45:00

Company gets approval to shut down botnet domains

Microsoft is continuing on its campaign to shut down the notorious Waledac
malware botnet.

The company said that i…

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 03:50:00

Company lobbies for better assessment procedures

Google has posted sharp criticism of vulnerability database services in the
wake of recent report.

Adam Mein of Go…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 28 August 2010 at 10:41:00

V3.co.uk rounds up the week’s top security stories

This week was dominated by data breaches and scareware and spam attacks, with
the unwelcome news that the UK is now the fourth most …

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 25 August 2010 at 23:05:00

Unified Communications Manager and Unified Presence get fixes

Cisco has released a security advisory to address vulnerabilities in a pair
of its products.

The compan…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 25 August 2010 at 02:24:00

Critical vulnerabilities fixed as Adobe comes under renewed attack

Adobe has issued a patch fixing 20 vulnerabilities in its Shockwave media
player.

The patches cover…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 14 August 2010 at 14:58:00

V3.co.uk rounds up the top security stories of the week

This week was dominated by smartphone security, in particular the RIM’s
continuing struggle to placate foreign governments over…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 12 August 2010 at 23:07:00

Over a third of software systems failing under pressure

The latest security tests from
Virus Bulletin have
found 19 of the 54 security suites examined to be inadequate …

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 12 August 2010 at 02:56:00

Security firm recycles old gaming hack

Users of Windows XP Service Pack Two (SP2) may still be able to get security
updates, despite the
lack
of Microsoft support, than…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 12 August 2010 at 02:21:00

Security researchers uncover serious webOS flaw

A team at MWR Infosecurity has uncovered a zero-day flaw in the Palm Pre
operating system which allows the handset to be…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 6 August 2010 at 03:28:00

Acrobat and Reader get fix for PDF attack

Adobe has issued a
security
alert that it will be releasing an out of band patch next week to fix a
critical flaw in its Acrobat …

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 6 August 2010 at 03:17:00

Fix for flaw used in jailbreak will arrive with next update

Germany is warning iOS users not to visit untrusted sites in the wake of a
recent vulnerability disclosure.

T…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 30 July 2010 at 19:48:00

Red faces at world’s biggest hacker conference

The supplier of video streaming for the Black Hat 2010 conference has been
caught out by Michael Coates, Mozilla’s head of we…

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Sharon Brennan, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 28 July 2010 at 16:37:00

Search firm turns up more malware than Bing, Twitter and Yahoo combined

Over two thirds of popular search results on Google have hidden malware,
according to a report into malware dist…

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Miya Knights, V3.co.uk, Monday 26 July 2010 at 12:46:00

SmartScreen web spam filter reaches milestone

Microsoft has revealed its web browser spam filter technology has stopped its
one-billionth piece of malware from being downloaded.

Internet E…

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Miya Knights, V3.co.uk, Thursday 22 July 2010 at 18:15:00

AVG reveals huge number of machines vulnerable to ‘Eleonore’ toolkit

AVG Research is claiming that one in 10 of all PCs is infected by malware
controlled by cybercriminals using the �…

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