Microsoft hopes free security means less malware
The software giant says shutting down Windows Live OneCare to release the software as a free tool could make consumers more secure. 2008-11-20 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11538 Researchers find more flaws in wireless security Two security experts plan to show a limited attack against the popular Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) -- a replacement for insecure WEP -- at a conference in Tokyo. 2008-11-06 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11537 Secure hash competition kicks off Dozens of amateur and professional cryptographers have joined the United States' first open competition for creating an uncrackable algorithm for generating hashes -- the digital fingerprints widely used in a variety of security functions. 2008-11-03 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11536 You don't know (click)jack Security professionals Robert "RSnake" Hansen and Jeremiah Grossman discuss a class of attacks, known as clickjacking, on user interfaces of Web browsers. 2008-10-15 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11535 Researchers weigh "clickjacking" threat A canceled presentation at a Web security summit attracts attention to the danger of overlaying Web pages with graphics to persuade a victim to click where an attacker wants. 2008-09-30 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11534 Security of Google's browser gets mixed marks The search giant uses process isolation, least privilege rules, and sandboxing as the security foundation for its Chrome browser, but security experts say more is needed. 2008-09-04 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11533 Online intruders hit Red Hat, Fedora Project A leading Linux company and its open-source distribution acknowledge that attackers breached several systems, including one that manages the Fedora signing process. 2008-08-22 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11532 Researchers race to zero in record time On the first day, three teams of security professional finished the Race to Zero contest, successfully modifying nine well-known viruses and exploits to escape detection by major antivirus engines. 2008-08-09 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11531 Gov't charges alleged TJX credit-card thieves U.S. prosecutors charge eleven people with taking part in an identity-theft ring that stole millions of credit-card accounts from major retailers, among them TJX Companies. 2008-08-05 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11530 Poisoned DNS servers pop up as ISPs patch An online attacker poisons at least one domain-name server at a major Internet service provider to send Google lookups to a pay-per-click ad network. 2008-07-30 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11529 |
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