"Enlightening and frightening" was the phrase used by a Microsoft executive to describe a hacking demonstration on a Windows XP system by two British e-crime specialists.
The British Parliament was "attacked" late last year by hackers who tried to exploit a recent serious Microsoft Windows flaw, security experts confirmed on Friday.
A possible zero day exploit has been discovered for a flaw in Flash thought to have been patched by Adobe a month ago.
A Trojan horse that exploits a recent critical flaw in Microsoft Windows' handling of JPEG images has been posted to several newsgroups, but it has no way to spread, security experts said Tuesday.
Sasser worm infections picked up rapidly during its second day of alert according anti-virus vendor Trend Mircro.
These worms will crash vulnerable Windows 2000 and Windows XP machines.
Security is like an onion: getting to the heart of it makes people cry a lot. But in order to protect your systems, security vendors are now recommending an onion-like multilayered approach.
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Security patches are a big worry: they come out at odd times, they suck up your bandwidth, and just occasionally they break things. We look at patch management packages to ease the burden.
This week I'd like to call your attention to a report that provides an insider's view of what happens when teenage hackers use hundreds of open-port PCs like yours and mine to shut down Web sites in what is commonly known as a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS).
Microsoft's Windows XP has received a fair amount of hype in the lead up to its release-Matt Lake and Josh Mehlman assess its usefulness for businesses.
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