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On the heels of last week's discovery of the first two worms designed to infect Mac OS X platforms, a new vulnerability surfaced today. The new year wouldn’t be complete without Microsoft announcing another security flaw. What is different about the latest one, however, is that it seems to affect virtually every single version of Windows right back to that granddaddy version 3.0. Anti-threat software better addresses malware threats than best-of-breed suites. To the delight of mouse-clickers around the globe, the so-called Kama Sutra Worm scored high marks on foreplay – but failed to deliver the knockout blow many security experts feared it would. To the delight of mouse-clickers around the globe, the so-called Kama Sutra Worm scored high marks on foreplay – but failed to deliver the knockout blow many security experts feared it would. Linux vendors have issued a warning about a potentially serious security hole in the KDE desktop environment, affecting a number of Linux distributions that use the software. Managing mobile security is the biggest IT challenge since the millennium bug, a mobile working study suggests. Hours after hackers posted public code designed to take advantage of the recently patched Microsoft vector markup language (VML) vulnerability, VeriSign iDefense security researchers discovered a private, in-the-wild exploit attacking the bug. Security experts are warning of a unique, yet low-risk, JavaScript vulnerability that affects two of the world’s most popular web browsers. This month's “patch Tuesday” bulletin from Microsoft will feature a security update for the recently exploited Windows Meta File vulnerability. Polo Ralph Lauren has finally repaired a software bug that set off an alert about the theft of credit card information, the Associated Press reports. Last month, David Litchfield, managing director of security software company NGS Software, wrote an open letter to Bugtraq criticizing the way Oracle had handled patching a series of flaws in its database products. He urged Oracle's customers to complain to the company demanding "a better security response." The last time we tested XSGuard’s IPS appliance, we could not complete the test due to internet connection difficulties (SC, July 2005, p58). This time, we used a similar methodology as in the earlier test, but went into more detail. The Mozilla Foundation is warning of a critical bug in the new Firefox 2.0 browser that could leave passwords vulnerable to hackers.
People sending emails to Gmail accounts may find they reveal more than they bargained for. A bug within Google mail service allows hackers to reveal details of other users’ personal emails, and even their account passwords. A new worm disguised as an iTunes file is slowly infecting AOL Instant Messenger users. Worried about your website being hacked? Robert Schifreen offers some advice on how to avoid becoming a victim One of my mother's favorite maxims is: "You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar." Spammers are taking advantage of a newly discovered drag-and-drop JavaScript exploit that uses an Internet Explorer bug to download malicious .exe files when a mouse is scrolled across a specially coded domain page. Security researchers have informed Microsoft of a bypass and cross-zone scripting vulnerability in Windows XP that could allow hackers to gain full control over and remotely execute code on user's machines using Internet Explorer (IE).