A zero-day vulnerability in Safari, the default browser for Apple’s Macintosh operating system, allowed two MacBooks to crumble before the onslaught of a CanSecWest security conference attendee’s hacking, aided as he was by a New York buddy with years of experience hacking Macs.
Shane Macaulay, a developer of binary security analysis tools, is going home with [...]

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Uh, guys… y’all gotta tell your friends not to store usernames and passwords in public documents - at least, not without protecting them with passwords themselves. More importantly, the last thing you want to do is set a reminder for yourself in Google Calendar and leave the login credentials in the reminder AND set it [...]

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Cyberspies have a new secret weapon: tainted Microsoft Office files.
A rising number of cyberattacks are taking aim at specific individuals at critical government agencies and corporations — enticing them to unwittingly open a corrupted Word, Excel or PowerPoint file sent as an e-mail attachment.
Clicking on the file relinquishes control of the PC without the user’s [...]

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A security researcher at Juniper Networks has developed a new form of attack that can be used to run unauthorized software on a wide range of computing devices, including routers and mobile phones.

In a demonstration set to take place at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver Thursday, Juniper’s Barnaby Jack says he will show how this [...]

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Spammers and hackers are using the slayings at Virginia Tech as a gory lure to infect computers with malicious software, security experts noted Thursday.
While the video made by gunman Cho Seung-hui prior to the killing of 33 people on Monday was widely posted on news Web sites and YouTube.com, spam e-mails were intercepted Wednesday night [...]

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Apple on Thursday issued a security update for Mac OS X that addresses 25 security flaws in the operating system software. The security update affects various parts of the operating system, including some third-party components such as the Kerberos authentication technology. The most serious of the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain complete [...]

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SpyLocked (or SpywareLocked 3.3 / SpywareLocked 3.4) is fake anti-spyware software. SpyLocked will display forged system alerts and fake security alerts in an attempt to trick user into buying the Paid Version of SpyLocked. SpyLocked is usually installed without your permission, through a Trojan, Virus or fake software.
You can find instructions for removal here:
How_Remove_Spylocked_Trojan_Adware32expdwnldr_t77859.html
…and [...]

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On the same day that the news breaks that eBay is acquiring StumbleUpon for $40ish million, Google announces that they are building strikingly similar functionality into their Toolbar. Google (along with AOL) were reportedly in the running to acquire StumbleUpon until very recently.
The Google Toolbar now includes a dice icon. Click it and you’ll be [...]

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Back in January, I posted a preview of Microsoft’s Windows Home Server, a product that should send shivers of delight down the spine of any home computing enthusiast. Windows Home Server, or WHS, is the product we’ve been waiting for quite a long time, and then some: In addition to the expected digital media sharing [...]

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What’s New in Thunderbird 2

Message Tags: Create your own tags for organizing email. Messages can be assigned any number of tags. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.
Visual Theme: Thunderbird 2’s theme [...]

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