Earlier Neowin reported about the fast spread of Downadup worm which targeted unpatched networks and poor passwords. The estimated number of systems affected by Downadup is around 8.9 million and its still growing. Disabling AutoRun...
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In a public mea culpa, Mozilla Corp.'s chief security officer acknowledged today that Firefox includes the same flaw that the company called a "critical vulnerability" in Internet Explorer during a two-week ruckus over responsibility for...
Microsoft was forced to re-issue a set of patches for multiple flaws in Microsoft Excel in order to solve a problem in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean editions. The original MS07-002 was a security bulletin released...
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday activity carried over from last week into this one as the software giant promised to issue a fix for its latest Internet Explorer security patch, which apparently carries a security bug of...
When it sued to block Oracle's proposed hostile acquisition of PeopleSoft on Feb. 26, the U.S. Department of Justice asserted that the two companies, plus SAP, are the "only" ones that compete to develop and...
The source code for a newer version of the Apache Web server software is of the same quality as that of proprietary competitors at a similar stage of development, a new study has found. ...
A computer security researcher says he has found several flaws in Citibank's online payment service C2it.com. The flaws could potentially expose customer account information and even enable a malicious criminal to move money out of...
A Fleet Credit Card Services customer has discovered a serious flaw in one of the bank's Web sites, apparently revealing private details of hundreds of thousands of transactions. The details, viewed by MSNBC.com, include Social...
