A security coalition has published draft guidelines for issuing bug alerts, a bid to temper a hot debate over when and how alerts should be released.
Responsible disclosure may become a thing of the past as an auction site, which sells zero-day vulnerabilities to the highest bidder, begins trading.
Users of OpenOffice 2.3 or prior versions should be prepared to download a highly critical security patch this week.
A Polish security researcher has claimed to have found multiple flaws in mobile Java, but is demanding 20,000 in return for full details of the vulnerabilities.
Microsoft has issued a security advisory warning that attackers are targeting versions of its Office Excel with vulnerabilities.
OS X security scares, a Linux worm and Microsoft bragging about security: so why is the world a safer place?
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.
In the past week, the security environment around Adobe's Reader and Acrobat products has imploded, with yet more JavaScript vulnerabilities appearing. Adobe needs to look no further than Microsoft for a lesson in how to deal with these situations.
It's always funny watching an event force a company to break old habits and this IE zero day was enough for Microsoft to do it. As Microsoft Australia's strategic security advisor Stuart Strathdee said "we pulled all stops to get this patch out".
When foreign markets are willing to pay twice as much for your exports, it's usually a good sign. Unfortunately for Australia, the goods being traded are compromised PCs but why are Australians worth twice as much as Americans?
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
Google's Security team has discovered vulnerabilities in the Sun Java Runtime Environment that threatens the security of all platforms, browsers and even mobile devices.
Bug hunter David Litchfield says the Oracle community shouldn't be so smug when it comes to database security. He represents NGS Software, which has serviced Oracle in the past and Microsoft at present.
Open-source developer Landon Fuller explains why he is devoting his time to patching flaws found by the Month of Apple Bugs.
Security professionals say they're making computing safer, but are they doing more harm than good? We find out what industry experts have to say.
Security appliances can introduce vulnerabilities into an organisation's network because they often include older operating systems and vendors rarely inform customers how to properly update them, according to Microsoft's Roger Grimes, who was speaking at the AusCERT 2008 conference.
A socially engineered e-mail, which contains a Trojan file that exploits a zero-day vulnerability and then hides behind a rootkit, might be the perfect attack and impossible to defend against.
Technical glitches have prompted Microsoft to stop offering for download a free program it introduced last week that allows Palm handhelds to synchronise with the Macintosh version of Office.
A strange two-wheeled creature was skimming through the halls of the Alexis Park Hotel on Sunday--a robot that sniffs out network vulnerabilities.
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.
Microsoft Internet Explorer contains two newly discovered flaws. Here are the details on patching the holes and a look at how Microsoft seems to be dancing around the problem.
An obscure messaging feature in Windows could be the latest source of security problems for Internet users, experts have warned.
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