Read up on the latest ideas and technologies from companies that sell hardware, software and services. A recent study of Web browser installations showed that far too few are up to date with the latest security patches. And browsers aren’t alone; as

Researcher reveals Twitter ‘follow’ bug - Computerworld Australia
Read up on the latest ideas and technologies from companies that sell hardware, software and services. Attackers can exploit a bug in Twitter to force victims to follow the hacker’s account, a security researcher said Thursday. According to Aviv Raff

The Open Road - CNET News
Proprietary vendors, including study author IBM, took a beating in IBM Internet Security Systems’s X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report [PDF]. Apple, Microsoft, Sun, and IBM each sprinted to finish in the top five for most reported security

F.B.I. issues computer virus alert - Kanabec County Times Online
Be on the lookout for spam e-mail spreading malicious software (malware) which mentions F.B.I. vs. facebook. The e-mail directs the recipient to click on a link to view an article about the FBI and Facebook. Once the user clicks on the link

The creative subjects of botnet blasted emails - Thetech Herald
The FBI has recently issued another warning about the Storm Worm, advising everyone to avoid the creative emails and subject lines which are luring people to malicious content. The content, in every case, is actually adding your computer to the

A Tale of Three (Electronic Voting) Elections - New York Times
Electronic voting has made great strides in reliability, but it has a long way to go. When reformers push for greater safeguards, they often argue that future elections could produce the wrong result because of a computer glitch or be stolen through

Storm Worm is back warns FBI - TechWorld
The FBI has issued a warning about a new round of spam mail spreading the the malicious Storm Worm. The law enforcement agency and its partner organisation, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), said they’ve received reports of recent spam e

Most drive-by malware comes from China, Google says - CNET News
SAN JOSE, Calif.–Google’s analysis of Web sites that have malware has found that most of the malicious drive-by activity due to computers in China, a Google engineer said at the Usenix security conference on Wednesday. About 67 percent of all the

Hill: Gilbert firm makes Web a safer place - East Valley Tribune
Iwasn t surprised when I heard that Fox Television was upgrading its internet security measures. But when I heard that a company here in the East Valley was providing the security upgrades, well, that certainly got my attention. As you can imagine

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