Adobe releases sandboxed Flash beta for Firefox
Adobe has released an important security feature for Flash Player on Firefox 4.0 and higher, delivering a public beta that sandboxes its processes in the browser on Windows.
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Microsoft: Kelihos botnet still down, new one emerging
Microsoft says the 41,000-strong Kelihos botnet it knocked out last year is still out of action, but clarified a new one is being developed using similar code.
Google to auto probe Android Market for malware
Google has unveiled Bouncer, its answer to the growing threat of maliciously laced software available on the Android Market.
gTLD registrar VeriSign hacked in 2010
VeriSign, the generic top-level domain that administers .com, .net and org, was hacked several times in 2010, according to its financial filings.
Zuckerberg's Facebook: Hackers build, not break things
Mark Zuckerberg outlined his company's US$5 billion initial public offering that at Facebook's heart is an approach he calls the "Hacker Way".
Australian cyber 'readiness' lags amidst 'arms race'
Despite recent efforts to bolster cyber security at a national level within Australia, it lags behind smaller countries at a time when most security professionals believe there's a cyber arms race going on.
Student ARP spoof's school network with Android device
A US student in the state of Omaha has admitted to redirecting the school's outbound traffic to an Android device, leaving the school with intermittent network access over three days.
Symantec: disable pcAnywhere until fully patched
Symantec on Tuesday took the dramatic step of advising customers of its secure communications product pcAnywhere to disable it, confirming that a 2006 data breach in which hackers stole its source code had led to a heightened risk of a successful attack.
Microsoft plucks Kelihos botnet coder from AV industry
Microsoft has named Russian software developer Andrey N. Sabelnikov as the alleged coder behind its botnet takedown target, Kelihos.
EU eyes board with 24 hr data breach notifications
A tough new European data privacy regime, set to be unveiled this week, contains proposed penalties that appear certain to elevate privacy and security to the board room.
ASIC: clients should "urgently" review online trading account security
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned online stockbroking accounts users to check their computer security after discovering "several" intrusions during recent surveillance.
McAfee fixes hosted-service spam flaw
McAfee has issued a patch for a flaw in its hosted anti-malware service Total Protection which allowed spammers to hijack customers machines to serve spam.
Facebook outs Koobface worm crew
Facebook on Tuesday named the five people it believes were behind the notorious Koobface worm, which duped a few hundred thousand Facebook users into downloading its malware.
How much new Mac malware arrived in 2011?
The year that just passed supplied enough discoveries of Mac malware that it became safe, possibly even prudent, to say the use of antivirus for OS X systems was a good idea.
Obama spikes anti-piracy SOPA over DNSSEC
The Obama Administration on Saturday announced it will veto the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act due to the threat the bill posed to the security of the internet's architecture.
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