The Mac community this week has been debating an updated Knowledge Base article on Apple’s Web site that raised questions about the company’s stance on security. The recent update, which was pulled down on Tuesday, originally recommended that users install at least one antivirus software app. It was an odd statement given that Apple [...]
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* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody’s favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the Facebook blog describes as “sleazy messages” to its users. That’s [...] Trusteer’s recently launched “Attack Trace” search engine aims to help financial institution by letting them search through the configuration files of popular banker malware SilentBanker, WSNPOEM/Zeus/PRG/Zbot and Torpig in order for them to verify whether or not their sites are targeted. And while the search engine is a marketable way to initiate a response [...] The final Microsoft Patch Tuesday for 2008 will be a big one: 8 bulletins covering serious code execution flaws in a wide range of ubiquitous software. According to the company’s advance notice mechanism, six of the eight bulletins will be rated “critical,” Microsoft’s highest severity rating. The “critical” updates will cover holes in the Windows [...] Following ElcomSoft’s claim that despite the 256-bit encryption Acrobat 9 passwords are susceptible to more efficient brute forcing than Acrobat 8 passwords — a claim that Adobe confirmed citing usability trade-offs and urged users to take advantage of its improved passphrase mechanisms — ElcomSoft’s Dmitry Sklyarov and Vladimir Katalov provide more insights on the implications [...] |
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