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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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Sunday 19 September 2010 at 18:56:00

Ronald K Noble labels cyber crime “most dangerous criminal threat”

The secretary general of law enforcement organisation Interpol has warned
that cyber crime could become the world’s…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 18 September 2010 at 14:52:00

Iranian industrial computer systems targeted by sophisticated worm

Researchers have revealed that the highly sophisticated Stuxnet worm was
designed to exploit an unprecedented fou…

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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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David Neal, V3.co.uk, Friday 17 September 2010 at 13:53:00

HP research paints a grim picture of relentless assaults

Enterprises are facing a number of security risks by failing properly to
protect their applications and networks, according to ne…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Thursday 16 September 2010 at 16:34:00

Security firm says Facebook is worst offender

AVG is warning users of social networks to be on their guard after new
research uncovered over 20,000 compromised web pages belonging …

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 14 September 2010 at 21:25:00

Stick to recognised download sites, advises McAfee

Users searching from free music are laying themselves open to malware
attacks, according to McAfee.

The company s…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 11 September 2010 at 14:28:00

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

It was a bad week for Research in Motion (RIM) and the Greater Manchester
Police. The former’s ongoing problems in the United Ara…

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David Neal, V3.co.uk, Friday 10 September 2010 at 12:35:00

Companies failing to fix common security weaknesses, says Trustwave

Organisations are suffering from increasingly sophisticated attacks, as
hackers attempt to gain profit from leaked dat…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 10 September 2010 at 03:48:00

Thousands caught unaware by old-style attack

Security firms are warning of an old-style worm transferred via email that is
spreading rapidly in the wild.

The malware …

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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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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 4 September 2010 at 06:15:00

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

This week was dominated by the VMworld 2010 conference in San Francisco, and
some interesting partnership/acquisition activity which …

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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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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Monday 30 August 2010 at 22:13:00

Technique cripples security systems

Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have
discovered a way to hack quantum network traffic using c…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 28 August 2010 at 17:29:00

Research into spam identifies botnet’s control servers

An international team of academics researching global spam has managed to
cripple a botnet as a by-product of its…

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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, Friday 27 August 2010 at 03:43:00

Survey reveals nations where online attacks are rife

Users in Turkey and Russia are at the greatest risk of online attacks,
according to a recent report.

Security firm …

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 27 August 2010 at 02:07:00

Malicious email attachment delivers infection

Security experts are issuing warnings following the discovery of a malware
scam using email attachments.

The attack uses e…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 26 August 2010 at 01:23:00

Spy’s drive revealed as the cause of massive data breach

The largest data breach ever suffered by the US military was carried out
using a USB Flash drive, the US depu…

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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 12:53:00

Busiest year yet for researchers and patchers, says IBM’s X-Force

Vulnerability disclosures reached record levels in the first half of
2010,according to the latest rep…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 21 August 2010 at 15:29:00

We round up the week’s top security stories

It was a relatively quiet week in security this week, until Thursday, when
the biggest deal of recent years was announced; Intel making
a s…

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 19 August 2010 at 02:20:00

Survey scam covertly shares links to friends

Facebook has taken down multiple fake pages following the discovery of a
massive survey scam.

Security firm Sophos said t…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 18 August 2010 at 20:34:00

Eight arrested after premium rate call scammers busted

City of London police have arrested eight people on suspicion of fraud during
dawn raids in London, Essex, the W…

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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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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 14 August 2010 at 01:43:00

Multi-thread processing could speed up password cracking

The growing integration of graphics processors into normal computational
tasks could threaten security protect…

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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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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 10 August 2010 at 13:02:00

McAfee calls for security industry to be more proactive

Malware reached its highest ever levels in the first half of this year,
according to new stats from McAfee, which has urged the …

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 6 August 2010 at 04:33:00

Spammers getting advanced at social engineering

A frequency analysis study of the words used in different types of spam has
revealed the tactics used by spammers.

Researc…

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