On Monday, Adobe patched vulnerabilities in versions 8.1 and earlier of its Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. If exploited, an attacker could launch malicious code on an affected system.
Apple Computer on Tuesday in the US released a security update for Mac OS X to repair 31 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day Wi-Fi hijack flaw.
Paying independent security researchers a bounty for responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities is not the best way to protect users, according to Microsoft.
Oracle's security chief says the software industry is so riddled with buggy product makers that "you wouldn't get on a plane built by software developers."
Google has made an adjustment to its desktop search tool to foil attacks that take advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's ubiquitous Internet Explorer Web browser.
After skipping Patch Tuesday last month, administrators will have the joy of a double patch this month because Microsoft is rushing out a fix for its Windows cursor vulnerability.
Google stitched up some gaping holes in its desktop search software recently but the nature of the tool's design means that the contents of users' hard drives will remain under constant threat of exposure.
Microsoft is going to let everyone -- even people with an illegal pirate copy of Windows XP -- download IE7 because the software giant really cares about the safety and security of all Internet users. (But don't mention Firefox ...)
Windows Defender for Vista has failed miserably when it comes to protecting users of Microsoft's latest operating system from a very basic attack.
If you recently signed up with Microsoft's OneCare Live antivirus service -- and you use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express -- there is a chance that your stored e-mails have been wiped out.
A security flaw in Linux editions of IBM's DB2 database could allow unauthorised users to seize control of a database's contents, Big Blue revealed.
Analysts predict that identity management solutions are the next hot security technologies.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
Open-source developer Landon Fuller explains why he is devoting his time to patching flaws found by the Month of Apple Bugs.
Microsoft released on Tuesday fixes that cover at least 20 Windows flaws, several of which could make versions of the operating system vulnerable to new worms or viruses.
McAfee, without realising it, has fixed a serious flaw in its popular product for managing security software, the security vendor said on Friday.
Microsoft released on Tuesday fixes that cover at least 20 Windows flaws, several of which could make versions of the operating system vulnerable to new worms or viruses.
Microsoft releases a cumulative patch for Internet Explorer, plugging a security hole that had been used by Trojan horse program QHosts to compromise consumers' PCs.
Microsoft alerted PC users to three critical security flaws in Internet Explorer and Windows on Wednesday, as the MSBlast worm and its variants used a previous vulnerability in Windows to spread across the Net for a second week.
Commentary: Anti-virus software won't protect you from the latest type of worm affecting Windows systems -- you need a personal firewall.
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