Computer Security News

IOActive's Dan Kaminsky discovered a flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System software, and with the attack code leaked by developers of the Metasploit hacking toolkit, security experts are saying that ...

A college student was behind bars Friday, July 25, 2008, accused of stealing his professor's identity to change his grades.

Former news anchors for KYW-TV in Philadelphia Larry Mendte and Alycia Lane, shown in September, 2003.

Diversinet Corp. , a leading provider of wireless data security infrastructure products and services, is pleased to announce that at the open at 9:30 am EST on Thursday July 24, 2008 Diversinet's common shares ...

Evolving Web 2.0 technologies -- wikis, blogs, social networking sites, etc. -- have resulted in a mashup of content sources that makes it very difficult to definitively determine the trust level of a ...

Data breaches are a recurring nightmare for IT managers responsible for securing not only their company's confidential data, but possibly also sensitive information belonging to their clients, such as social ...

Symantec Corp. today announced that its Culver City, CA, campus has earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold Certification.

Internet security researchers on Thursday warned that hackers have caught on to a "critical" flaw that lets them control traffic on the Internet.

A study by the University of Michigan says more than 75 percent of banks are vulnerable to cybercriminals because of design flaws.

The number of drive-by download attacks has tripled and they are beginning to affect government websites as well as small business operations.

Hackers have released software that exploits a recently disclosed DNS flaw . The attack code was released Wednesday by developers of the Metasploit hacking toolkit.

Defense lawyers for Lori Drew, a Missouri mother who allegedly used a MySpace account to bully a 13-year-old neighbor, filed three electronic court documents Wednesday asking for the case to be dismissed, ...

District Court Judge D. Brock Hornby heard presentations from two groups of lawyers who want to represent the 4 million consumers.

According to a report out Wednesday, antivirus vendor Sophos says it detects one Web page with malicious content every 5 seconds--a trend that is up 300 percent from 2007.

Many banks are unwittingly training their online customers to take risks with their passwords and other sensitive account information, leaving them more vulnerable to fraud, new research shows.

The Times says the "Asprox computer virus" is infecting British web sites, but actually, it's just another escalating round of SQL injection attacks July 23, 2008 4:59 PM According to The Times : "Eastern ...

RIM has released a patch for a security flaw in BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which exposed corporate networks to hackers via a maliciously crafted PDF document .

Hackers say that they will soon develop attack code that exploits a recently published, critical DNS bug.

The blogosphere is awash with talk about the possible overall weakness of the Domain Name System architecture.

Despite Dan Kaminsky's efforts to keep a lid on the details of the critical DNS vulnerability he found, someone at the security firm Matasano leaked the information on its blog yesterday, then quickly pulled ...