It doesn’t matter how carefully you protect your online privacy, if the employees are the ones stalking you. “We dismissed David Barksdale for breaking Google’s strict internal privacy policies,” said Bill Coughran, Google senior vice president of engineering, in a statement. The employee in question was fired in July for illegally accessing data in...
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Mozilla has joined Apple in being among the first to fix the DLL load hijacking attack vector that continues to haunt hundreds of Windows applications. The open-source group released Firefox 3.6.9 with patches for a total of 15 vulnerabilities (11 rated critical), including the publicly known DLL load hijacking flaw that exposes Windows users...
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Adobe today sounded an alarm for a new zero-day flaw in its PDF Reader/Acrobat software, warning that hackers are actively exploiting the vulnerability in-the-wild. Details on the vulnerability are not yet public but the sudden warning from Adobe is a sure sign that rigged PDF documents are being used by malicious hackers to take...
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Symantec launched the 2011 editions of Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security Wednesday, as the security software maker indicated that 65 percent of consumers worldwide — and almost three-quarters of U.S. Web surfers — have already fallen victim to cybercrimes. This makes comprehensive online security protection more important than ever, Symantec executives said. Available...
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Apple’s Ping music-focused social networking service may be little more than 48 hours old, but it already boasts over a million users. The Mac and iPod maker announced that Ping topped the million mark late Friday afternoon. Ping lets iTunes 10 users follow artists and bands, as well as see what iTunes Store music...
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