| BitDefender partner site hit by hackers Hackers elicited customer details from a Portuguese partner site associated with the security company BitDefender, the second intrusion in recent days targeting computer security companies. Last call: Anheuser-Busch IT guy tossed into prison for computer theft An ex-IT consultant for Anheuser-Busch this week got 18 months in prison and was ordered to pay $377,000 in restitution for swiping nearly $400,000 worth of the beer giant's computer gear. Undercover: The Company that Did Everything Wrong The plane landed late afternoon at a small airport in California that looked like it could have been a scene from a 1960s movie. My team and I walked down the metal stairs (no Jetway at this airport) and across the tarmac to the one-and-only baggage claim carousel. Hacker challenge takes aim at browsers, smartphones The hacking contest that has grabbed headlines two years running will take aim next month at browsers and smartphones, according to the security company that sponsors the "PWN2OWN" challenge. VoIP security flaw: Call flooding attack Cisco Subnet blogger Patrick Park continues his series on VoIP vulnerabilities with a look one of the most common attacks. Obama inauguration guarded by high-def video system The presidential inauguration event last month was guarded with an advanced video-surveillance system used by local and federal law enforcement to watch over both President... Security expert: Microsoft should cut IE's links to Windows Microsoft would better protect users by severing Internet Explorer 's connections to Windows, then patching the browser invisibly in the background -- daily if necessary, a security expert argued Tuesday. MobileMe users targeted in phishing scam again Macs may be all but immune to viruses, but its users are still vulnerable to classic phishing schemes. You may remember that last summer a suspicious e-mail was going around to MobileMe account holders. Made to look like an official communication from Apple, it informed the user that their payment had failed to go through, and linked them to a site where they could fill in their credit card info, which would then of course be used in nefarious ways. Start-up Talis targets desktop security Start-up Talis Data Systems introduces PC hardware that controls use of USB storage devices and access to networks based on defined user privileges. NSA identifies top 25 programming errors The National Security Agency, working with MITRE Corp., SANS, and dozens of industry experts from many other organizations, has published a valuable list of the top 25 most dangerous programming errors. RIM releases patch for buggy ActiveX control Research iIn Motion has patched a piece of software for Windows PCs that could leave them vulnerable to attack when loading new applications onto BlackBerry devices. February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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