Security Trends: Archive: January 2008

VoIP Vulnerabilities Get Star Billing in Report

Predicting top five threats for 2008, Sipera Systems advises 'heightened awareness' of potential perils.

eBay's PayPal Scoops Up Fraud Sciences

With the acquisition, the payment-services arm of the online auctioneer took the first step in new CEO's drive for more secure shopping.

Symantec Readies Flexible Family Safety Software

New technology is designed to be a little more flexible than older products. Kids will probably still resent it.

ScanSafe Brings Security to the Cloud

In a bid to keep workers from getting infected at the local Starbucks, it offers HTTP filtering as a service.

Florida ISP Said to Host Terrorist Software

Security researcher is disturbed to discover an ISP in his hometown appears to be hosting an encryption tool used by terrorists.

Cisco Pushes Big Firewall For Big Business Needs

A new high-end security appliance from Cisco scales to full 10GbE and two million simultaneous connections.

Publishing Company Settles Software Suit With SIIA

Whittiker Legal Publishing agrees to pay $500,000 and destroy unlicensed copies of Adobe, Symantec and FileMaker software.

Botnet Forecast: A Valentines Day Storm

In an effort to fend off rivals, Storm baits would-be victims with sexy e-mails.

Is Open Source the Answer to Software Piracy?

What if users opted to download free and legal open source programs instead of proprietary software?

A Particularly Nasty Week For Malware

From Excel to the revitalized Storm worm to a severe banking Trojan, it's enough to make you nostalgic for the days of BBSes.

Webroot Offers Cloud-Based E-mail Scanning Service

New service compliments the company's client-side software and provides filtering of e-mail for viruses, spyware, phishing and unwanted images.

PGP Updated to be a Good Citizen

New version of Encryption Platform makes it play nicer with others on your computer.

Research: Oracle Applications Not Secure

Oracle spends a lot of time producing its Critical Patch Updates, but apparently most DBAs don’t pay much attention to them.

More Trouble For QuickTime

It sounds like a broken record at this point, but QuickTime faces a flaw -- again.

First iPhone Malware Found

It's mostly harmless, but future ones may not be.

Survey: Most PCs Are Running Out-Of-Date Software

System checker from security firm Secunia finds only five percent of systems scanned are fully patched.

Spammers Hijack Microsoft's SkyDrive Service

If you build it badly, the spammers will come.

Microsoft to Office 2003 Users - 'Our Bad'

Microsoft apologizes and provides automated tools to let users restore access to older files blocked by Office 2003 Service Pack 3.

Facebook's 'Secret Crush' is a Malware App

Now operating under a new name, the first documented adware widget continues to ricochet across Facebook.

Wi-Fi Networks Face Virus Threat?

Unprotected routers could spread malicious software rapidly to thousands of computers.

The Sneaky Side of Sears?

Security researchers call out Sears on Spyware tactics.

Adobe Phones Home And Irks Customers

The tinfoil hats come out when Adobe apps are found to be quietly pinging an analytics server.