Mechanisms used by companies for detecting potential attacks against their systems and reporting the evidence to the authorities have some serious flaws, according to security experts.
The Red Hat-supported Fedora Project has started issuing updates to its Linux distribution again, after a hiatus of several weeks caused by a hacker break-in.
With Bluetooth now a common feature on nearly all new mobile devices, there needs to be greater awareness from users about security problems and vulnerabilities associated with the function, according to industry figures.
A recently discovered security weakness in the widely used Acrobat Reader software could put Net users at more risk than previously thought, experts warned on Thursday in the US.
Computer code posted over the weekend can crash vulnerable computers by exploiting a Windows flaw disclosed in October.
Microsoft has warned of three flaws affecting its software, the most serious of which would allow an attacker to gain full control of a PC using Java applets.
help/how to One of the favourite tricks that hackers like to use is to flood a targeted system with traffic, which results in a Denial of Service (DoS). Here are some registry edits that you can use to defend Win2K systems against DoS attacks.
A breach in internal security is less likely than an external breach, yet many admins don't devote enough attention to internal security practices. Here's a story that shows how these practices become vital when dealing with a mischievous user.
E-mail is practically universal, but that doesn't mean that everyone knows how to use it correctly. These usage guidelines, which encompass things like virus, spam, and phishing protection, rules of etiquette, and attachment handling, will help safeguard your organisation and teach your users how to handle their e-mail responsibly.
Two flaws in open-source cryptography app could allow an attacker to add content to a digitally signed message or forge signatures.
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A bug in the Mozilla code, which is used in the latest Netscape browser, allows a Web page to list directories and read files from the users' computer.
Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.
A PDA in the wrong hands can do considerable damage if the data is not protected. Find out how to handle the many unique security challenges associated with using PDAs.
Scott Charney's carreer has taken him from prosecutor in Bronx County to vice chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Now he's literally looking for trouble as Microsoft's chief security strategist.
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