SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo has issued a "highly critical" update for its popular instant messenger feature as it tries to combat security flaws that could allow an attacker to take over a user's system. The flaws affect versions of Yahoo Messenger 5.0 through 8.0, according to a security advisory released Friday by Secunia and reported
WASHINGTON DC - The US Government signaled some willingness to address concerns over citizens' privacy, but also launched a scheme which will analyze secret airline passenger risk profiles and keep them for 40 years. The US Government released guidelines, which it says will protect the privacy of US citizens in an era of increasing data
CHICAGO - More than 80 percent of financial services respondents say their organization's use of handheld devices had increased over the past two years, producing a growing security risk. The survey reflects the concerns of survey respondents. Some 87 percent say they are concerned about the security of e-mail access to corporate server-based accounts and
CUPERTINO - Symantec has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit that alleges eight businesses and seven individuals reaped an estimated $15 million in profits from pirated copies of its most popular security software. The lawsuit, filed in a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, comes after an investigation of more than two years, the company said.
NEW YORK - CA has introduced a recovery management solution that offers continuous data protection , business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities in one package. The Islandia, N.Y.-based vendor says its BrightStor ARCserve Backup/WANSyncHA bundle integrates the WANSync high availability and Assured Recovery disaster recovery testing solutions from XOsoft Inc., acquired by CA in July,
SEATTLE - As part of its monthly patch cycle, Microsoft plans to release on Tuesday six security bulletins, at least two of them deemed "critical," but the software giant has not yet schedule a patch for Office, which is open to exploit in cyberattascks. Five of the security bulletins will include fixes for vulnerabilities in
LANSING ? The Michigan Homeland Security Consortium has formed an advisory council to mentor its organization and Board of Directors. The Council will be a group of independent business, community, economic development, education and homeland security leaders who will provide valuable guidance to help manager the consortiums rapid growth. The new Advisory Council Director is
RICHMOND HILLS, Ontario - As part of version 6.0 of its Webwasher gateway security product, Securing Computing Corp. has made several additions and enhancements including the integration of CipherTrust's TrustedSource, a company that Secure Computing recently acquired. TrustedSource is a reputation-based security system that has 4500 sensors deployed worldwide that monitors billions of messages that
RICHMOND HILLS, Ontario - The number of Network Appliance (NetApp) storage offerings, relabeled as part of IBM's N series of storage offerings, has been expanded. One of the new devices, the IBM System Storage N5600 is designed for small and medium sized businesses and scales up to 252 terabytes of physical capacity. It is available
CUPERTINO - Security specialist Symantec issued a critical update for its Veritas NetBackup 6.0 PureDisk Remote Office Edition, whose vulnerabilities could allow attackers to gain remote control over a user's system. Symantec issued the security update to address buffer overflow vulnerabilities found in the HTML-embedded scripting language PHP, which is used in its PureDisk software,