Dan Kaplan

A security researcher has unveiled a new iPhone SMS vulnerability, according to reports out of the SyScan Conference in Singapore. Juniper Networks has decided to scrap a presentation by one of its researchers that was set to show how a cash machine software vulnerability can be used to ... An appeals court has upheld a ruling that Kaspersky Lab did nothing wrong when it blocked users' access to Zango programs. Reports of the death of Britney Spears have been greatly exaggerated -- and caused by hackers. Two Facebook fans generated a load of free publicity for their new blog when, in their maiden post, they disclosed a vulnerability in the social-networking ... Virus researchers have spotted a new variant of a Mac trojan that attempts to change a victim computer's DNS settings. A security researcher plans to use next month to disclose a slew of bugs that could yield worm outbreaks in microblogging platform Twitter. Symantec and McAfee agreed to pay a combined US$750,000 to settle charges that their subscription renewal process was deceptive to home users. As expected, spammers and malware writers are trying to cash in on the Air France disaster. T-Mobile has confirmed that hackers were able to swipe data from its systems, but the wireless carrier is downplaying the threat to customers. Microsoft has delivered 10 patches, including fixes for a server-side bug that was being actively exploited and a much publicised client-side issue that was ... Microsoft next week plans to push out 10 patches, six graded "critical" by the software giant. Apple has released an updated version of its popular QuickTime software. A McAfee study into 2,600 of the most popular keyword searches on the web has concluded that hunts for screensavers present the most risk. Social networking sites are all the rage within phishing circles these days. Prodded by what many security observers considered to be a lackadaisical response earlier this year to a major zero-day Reader and Acrobat vulnerability, ... Microsoft has confirmed the presence of a privilege-escalation vulnerability in its Internet Information Services (IIS) web server. A security researcher who is upset that Apple has yet to patch a months-old vulnerability has published a proof-of-concept to demonstrate the exploit's ... Microsoft said it expects to release a single patch next week -- this one to repair a zero-day vulnerability in PowerPoint that is being leveraged in ... Adobe said it plans to release an update by May 12 for the recently disclosed Reader and Acrobat vulnerability.