A worm that is more than three years old is rearing its ugly head again. The Sober family of worms first hit the Internet back in October of 2003, and it raged around the globe, wildly infecting computers throughout 2004 and into 2005. Now, two security companies in the last few days have spotted [...]

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Dino Dai Zovi, the New York-based security researcher who took home $10,000 in a highly-publicized MacBook Pro hijack on April 20, has been at the center of a week’s worth of controversy about the security of Apple’s operating system. In an e-mail interview with Computerworld, Dai Zovi talked about how finding vulnerabilities is like fishing, [...]

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Microsoft is touting a new set of security features designed to lock down Word and Excel. The software giant said it hopes the move will end Office’s run as a favourite target of malware authors and remote attackers.
Josh Edwards, technical product manager for Microsoft Office, explained in an interview with vnunet.com that Microsoft completely [...]

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Joanna Rutkowska, a security researcher known for picking apart the security mechanisms built into Windows, is to demonstrate new ways for hackers to invade Windows Vista, including rootkit techniques and ways to defeat BitLocker drive encryption.
Rutkowska recently announced she will be running a training session called “Understanding Stealth Malware” during the Black Hat Briefings and [...]

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