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When even Google falls victim to hackers, it’s clear that traditional security software isn’t getting the job done. Hackers, criminals, and spies have broken into the computer systems of thousands of companies, government agencies, and organizations. Eighty-five percent of companies and agencies surveyed by the Ponemon Institute, a research firm, have suffered security breaches and [...]
The students at the elementary school host a Wellness Day every year to support a healthy lifestyle. Intervention teacher Connie Fellers said it’s a day that people in the community help with and students get to learn all about health. “We have 17 people from the community who are healthcare professionals in one field or [...]
A Riverside man who was selling thousands of dollars in counterfeit computer software in Rubidoux was arrested during an undercover sheriff’s sting Wednesday. Riverside County sheriff’s deputies arrested Omar Montoya, 38, on suspicion of possessing counterfeit computer software and trademarked items. Detectives began investigating the case Sunday when they received information that someone was selling [...]
UK users are being offered a ‘hardened’ version of Mozilla Firefox that can secure access to online bank accounts, maker Network Intercept has announced. Although the security built into the browser is identical in its workings to the US version which has been available for some weeks, the Secure-Me browser does feature some necessary localisation. [...]
Adobe issued security patches urgently on February 16, 2010 to fix twin flaws in the company’s PDF software popularly used to view and edit documents. Adobe assigned the two flaws a “critical” rating. Owing to the security updates, Adobe’s Acrobat and Reader versions bumped up from 9.3 to 9.3.1. They are essential for Acrobat running [...]
SQL injection has, for a long time now, found its way to the top places of the list of favorite attack vectors of cyber criminals. Its popularity is, without a doubt, due to the relative ease of use and high success rate. For those who are not familiar with how an attack of this kind [...]
“OpenOffice 3.2″, a latest version of OpenOffice, has been issued. Various flaws have been fixed in this new version because of which a computer could be remotely compromised by an attacker. In total seven vulnerabilities have been fixed, and three of them could be used to infuse and execute malicious code, as said by security [...]
The total number of newly discovered vulnerabilities dropped 11 percent in 2009, with 6,601 new bugs, according to the report. Document reader/editor and multimedia applications saw more than a 50 percent increase in vulnerabilities last year, and the old nemesis cross-site scripting (XSS) beat out SQL injection as the top, but in Web apps. Tom [...]
Thursday night, claiming several prominent users. The result was evident on Friday morning when users woke up to find messages on compromised accounts boasting about sexual performance, followed by a link to a Web site selling sexual-performance drugs. Although the number of people affected is difficult to determine, it made top news on the country’s [...]
Yves Behar, founder of Fuseproject, an integrated design agency, opened the Consumer Electronics Association’s (CEA) Greener Gadgets event, held here this morning, on how efficient green products can be highly desirable. The designer, who has worked on the One Laptop Per Child initiative, among several other environmentally friendly projects, discussed how new designs for CE [...]
