- I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: “Embedded security will soon become a key differentiator for any solution that contains IP-enabled embedded devices.”
That may seem a pretty adventurous prediction considering how commonplace embedded (continue reading...)
- I'm a big fan of Adblock Plus - it's a great add on if you don't want to be hit over the head with any number of spinning, flashing adverts torn straight from the pages (continue reading...)
- Hi everyone – Mike Reavey here. Today, we’re releasing our December set of security updates. As we do every month, we're providing a heads-up on what’s coming in this month’s release as well as offering (continue reading...)
- Should there be a minimum age before you can use social networks or have a web email account?
Under Google and Facebook's terms of services, you have to be at least 13 years old. However, (continue reading...)
- Hello. As I previously mentioned in the Advance Notification Service blog post on Thursday, today we are releasing 13 security bulletins, three of which are rated Critical in severity, and 10 Important.
These bulletins will (continue reading...)
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This month, we have 13 Security Bulletins instead of the expected 14, bringing us up to 99 bulletins this year. The original anticipated 14th bulletin was (continue reading...)
- Think the 12 Days of Christmas jingle:
On this Patch Tuesday before Christmas ….. Microsoft Gave to me ….. 3 critical patches… 10 important ones…and a patch for the Duqu vulnerability…
We initially expected 14 bulletins (continue reading...)
- Paul Henry, Security and Forensics Analyst for Lumension, discusses the impact of the December 2011 Patch Tuesday releases. (continue reading...)
- It would cost Costco $80 billion to give everyone on Facebook a $100 gift card. Do you still think the link can be trusted, or have you twigged that it's just another Facebook survey (continue reading...)
- Last week, our friends at ThreatPost posted about the ever-growing infection of websites hosting Black Hole Exploit Kits. A Black Hole exploit takes advantage of unpatched Windows operating systems. It also targets other software, (continue reading...)
- Free Windows phones are being offered by Microsoft to users who describe their Android malware problems.
- Thanks to Masaki Suenaga and Andy Xies for their analysis.
Following the tweet from our @threatintel Twitter account last night about malicious applications targeting users in European countries, Symantec Security Response has identified another group (continue reading...)
- A new study has tossed the big browsers into the security mosh pit and decreed that Google's Chrome comes in first, ahead of Internet Explorer and Firefox. But when it comes to the top three, (continue reading...)
- Internet users in Latin America were the intended victims of a malware campaign, when an email was spammed out claiming to contain breaking news of the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. (continue reading...)
- Just a couple weeks ago, Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs Manager for Google, claimed that no real malware exists and that “Virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell (continue reading...)
- Last week, our friends at ThreatPost posted about the ever-growing infection of websites hosting Black Hole Exploit Kits. A Black Hole exploit takes advantage of unpatched Windows operating systems. It also targets other software, (continue reading...)
- Recently I blogged about how attackers are forcing users to download fake codecs to spread malicious content. I’ve also encountered across another drive by (continue reading...)
- This month's Microsoft Updates includes an interesting vulnerability:Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-083"This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft (continue reading...)
- The FBI acknowledged hackers have penetrated at least 3 US cities SCADA systems, one of them "major". The FBI is receiving a 12% budget increase for Cyber, but claims the division will double in size (continue reading...)
- The FTC has reached a settlement with fake anti-virus sellers Innovative Marketing for $8.2 million. The FTC will begin sending rebate checks to more than 320,000 victims. (continue reading...)