First Trojan reported for the iPhone, 01/08/08 While not a huge risk, the first Trojan for the iPhone has been discovered. The first reports came from iPhone enthusiast site Modmyifone.com and were later confirmed by security research company F-Secure. Facebook 'Secret Widget' not our fault, Zango CEO says, 01/09/08 The Facebook 'Secret Crush' widget which has tricked millions of Facebook users into downloading spyware was not our idea, Zango CEO Keith Smith says. Storm worm, other botnets, kept spam levels high in 2007, 01/09/2008 Botnets helped keep spam output at consistently high levels last year, and global spam reached rates as high as 96% of all e-mail traffic during ... New, super nasty rootkit infects XP machines Symantec has found a new rootkit that hides from Windows XP on the hard drive's boot sector. Spammers hijack Microsoft site to push pill popping, 01/09/08 Spammers have found another great place to hide spam URLs in plain sight - on Microsoft's Live SkyDrive file sharing service. Open source security bugs uncovered, 01/09/08 A U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) bug-fixing scheme has uncovered an average of one security glitch per 1,000 lines of code in 180 widely used open source software projects. Verizon Business launches managed Unified Threat Management service, 01/09/08 Verizon Business expanded its managed services portfolio today by announcing that it will be offering a Unified Threat ... Firms are still testing with live customer data, study warns, 01/09/08 A majority of organizations are creating unnecessary risks by using actual customer data for the development and testing of applications, according to a survey by Compuware and the Ponemon Institute. Yahoo tests support for OpenID, 01/09/08 Yahoo appears close to implementing OpenID, a Web authentication standard that relieves people of the need to remember multiple passwords to log into different Web sites. Free Trojan removal tool for OS X available now, 01/09/08 SecureMac has introduced a free Trojan Detection Tool for Mac OS X. |
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