Computer Security News

A study by the University of Michigan says more than 75 percent of banks are vulnerable to cybercriminals because of design flaws.

The number of drive-by download attacks has tripled and they are beginning to affect government websites as well as small business operations.

Hackers have released software that exploits a recently disclosed DNS flaw . The attack code was released Wednesday by developers of the Metasploit hacking toolkit.

Defense lawyers for Lori Drew, a Missouri mother who allegedly used a MySpace account to bully a 13-year-old neighbor, filed three electronic court documents Wednesday asking for the case to be dismissed, ...

District Court Judge D. Brock Hornby heard presentations from two groups of lawyers who want to represent the 4 million consumers.

According to a report out Wednesday, antivirus vendor Sophos says it detects one Web page with malicious content every 5 seconds--a trend that is up 300 percent from 2007.

Many banks are unwittingly training their online customers to take risks with their passwords and other sensitive account information, leaving them more vulnerable to fraud, new research shows.

The Times says the "Asprox computer virus" is infecting British web sites, but actually, it's just another escalating round of SQL injection attacks July 23, 2008 4:59 PM According to The Times : "Eastern ...

RIM has released a patch for a security flaw in BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which exposed corporate networks to hackers via a maliciously crafted PDF document .

Hackers say that they will soon develop attack code that exploits a recently published, critical DNS bug.

The blogosphere is awash with talk about the possible overall weakness of the Domain Name System architecture.

Despite Dan Kaminsky's efforts to keep a lid on the details of the critical DNS vulnerability he found, someone at the security firm Matasano leaked the information on its blog yesterday, then quickly pulled ...

By Reuters 9:41 AM EDT Mon. Jul. 21, 2008 VILNIUS, July 21 - Lithuania said it suffered another foreign cyber attack over the weekend when the state tax office's website was swamped with requests, but no damage ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- -- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. , the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008.

Russian security company Kaspersky Lab's Web site for Malaysia was defaced on Saturday along with one of its online shopping sites, according to Zone-H, an organization that documents such attacks.

July 21, 2008 A computer security company on Monday inadvertently published details of a major flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System several weeks before they were due to be disclosed.

Napera Networks , a company dedicated to helping small and medium-sized enterprises succeed at network security, today announced the launch of the Napera Advantage Partner Program.

Former news anchors for KYW-TV in Philadelphia Larry Mendte and Alycia Lane, shown in September, 2003.

Some of Canada's leading academics discuss the best leadership practices for a wide range of IT challenges.

This is the message in the White Paper from Firebrand Training. SMEs are endangering critical corporate information because they are failing to adequately secure their wireless networks.