Symantec researchers have uncovered additional clues that point to Chinese hacker involvement in attacks against a large number of Western companies, including major U.S. defense contractors.
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Hackers armed with a single machine and a minimal broadband connection can cripple Web servers, researchers said Wednesday. Microsoft today shipped an emergency update to fix the flaw.
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Millions of HP LaserJet printers contain a security weakness that could allow attackers to take control of the systems, steal data from them and issue commands that could cause them to overheat, according to two researchers from Columbia University.
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Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised by security researchers, but the provider has since closed the vulnerabilities.
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Researchers at North Carolina State University claim they’ve achieved a breakthrough in how encryption can be used in technology called non-volatile main memory, which is seen as an eventual replacement for conventional dynamic random-access memory.
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Apple is offering security experts a copy of the developer preview of Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, and asking them for feedback.
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Symantec researchers today said that the notorious Stuxnet worm targeted five separate organizations — all with a presence in Iran — and that attacks began in June 2009, more than a year before experts raised the alarm.
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French security researchers today confirmed the presence of a bug in Internet Explorer (IE) that’s at the center of a spat between Microsoft and a Google security engineer.
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People using a tool to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against other websites in support of WikiLeaks can easily be traced, according to computer security researchers.
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Research firm RamzAfzar this week issued a home-brewed patch that appears to fix a critical bug in the popular Adobe Reader software.
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