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About 146,000 users of USAJobs.gov had their personal information compromised in recent attacks on Monster.com, the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) disclosed this week. Monster.com has admitted that the number of job seekers on its website who had their personal data stolen is greater than the 1.3 million originally reported.
Users are encouraged to patch their systems immediately with an out-of-band fix from Microsoft for a major Internet Explorer vulnerability. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it will issue an emergency fix on Wednesday for a dangerous zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Attacks exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer spread quickly over the weekend, according to Microsoft. Microsoft has closed out the year with a mammoth security update -- fixing 28 vulnerabilities, many of them Office and web flaws. A recent update from antivirus firm AVG has caused havoc with some users by deleting a critical file in non-English versions of Windows XP after incorrectly detecting it as a virus. Microsoft on Tuesday pushed out 11 patches for 20 vulnerabilities. A study has shown that Skype users in China are being spied upon, despite denials from the company that this is the case. Security researchers have uncovered a pair of vulnerabilities in VMware software, virtualisation technology used to run multiple versions of an operating system on a single computer. One flaw affects a server version of the software, the other is found in desktop software. Apple released a security update for its Mac OS X to fix several security issues, most notably for the notorious DNS cache poisoning problem and a vulnerability within PostScript font names. Apple has added several security fixes into the latest versions of iTunes and Quicktime.
Sandboxing processes in tabbed browsers – as seen in Chrome - is great for security, as long as users understand how to use the technology, a security expert has warned. Microsoft plans to issue four security patches next week, all for "critical" flaws. Update patches kernel flaws. Microsoft said on Thursday it plans to release seven patches -- three of them rated "critical" -- in the June Patch Tuesday round of bug fixes this week. Roughly one month after Microsoft disclosed that attackers were exploiting a zero-day Active X vulnerability, the attacks are multiplying; but mostly in China. Malware writers and hackers turning their sights to Apple Macs, warns security firm Sophos. A major vulnerability in the BlackBerry Attachment Service could result in a takedown of the enterprise server that supports the popular mobile devices.
A DNS design flaw, which could have allowed remote attackers to silently hijack web sessions, prompted Tuesday's release of an unprecedented multivendor patch.